8 10 13359 https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/228c4e6ab29ae878cff07b6e33e613ee.pdf eb330951f57ec2b7c682abec057884f5 PDF Text Text - RETURN TO FORE TRY LIBRARY Woods Division Marathon Corp. of Canada Ltd. Port Arthur, Ontario . . . . THE VOICE OF THE TIMBER INDUSTRY IN NORTHERN ONTARIO �PAGE 2 LOG BOOK JULY 1949 ~?--'· Hard Surfacing With Castlron Welding.Qod ; ~ ·. \ ,. . Yes, with the amazingly new WONDER HARD SURFACING ·coMPOUND' and CAST I RON WELDING ROD you can hard surface blade edges, bucket and scarifer teeth, etc., at one fifth the cost of other methods. 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PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO r �JULY 1949 THUNDER BAY TIMBER OP About . . . Faue . . . H. H. STYFFE .................... ... A. J. AUDEN .. ......... . . J. H. H. PAGE 3 LOG BOOK resi .\ ~<' IY. SO½f~ .,,.,,.,~.,.,.,.,.,. H. ~~ C,& We are on ain approaching a period of high hazard with rega to forest fires in this area. It would therefore be timely in this message to remind us all that we can never be too conscious of the need for Fi re Prevention. Industry has been making great strides in matters of co-operation with the Forestry Branch of the Department of Lands and Forests. In addition, the various associations and companies have increased their activities with regard to Publicity and Fire Prevention research. Recently the Woodlands Section of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association held their summer meeting at Beardmore and vicinity. This meeting was devoted to the problem of Forest Fi res. The industry as a whole and the Forestry Branch are attempting to do their part in combating the fire problem.. • We, the readers of this Bulletin, can help too. If each of us, as individuals, make certain that our duties, whatever they may be in regard to Fire Prevention, are ully discharged, the total effort cannot fail to be suc,.c essful or at least bring about a substantial reduction in 1949 Forest Fi.re Losses. H. H. 'BERT' STYFFE First Year University Forestry The Counci I of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto have authorized the Lakehead Technical Institute to establish a first year course in Forestry equivalent to the course at the University of Toronto. This arrangement will allow successful candidates to proceed to the second year in Forestry at the University of Toronto. This arrangement now permits students interested in forestry to choose either the Technical Forestry Course or the University Forestry Course, depending on their desire and academic standing from the Secondary Schools. The Lakehead Technical lnstitue is presently advertising for a graduate in Forestry to supplement the present staff. Applications for the position should be sent to the Institute, Port Atthur, Ontario by August i st, 1949. All phases of the timber industry have recorded an outstanding performance since 1944 through 1948 rn spite of the fact that the last quarter in '48 sure went to "pot" so far as timber movement was concerned. There are those who are blaming the other fellow. There are those who view the future with fear and trembling. Sure, there will be many casualties. The majority will survive, however, with scars of experience. The transition from shortages to surpluses, is now at work in a great many lines. Price readjustments most naturally follows. Inventory reduction means a decline in production. Inventory reductions are reflected in the gradual reduction of bank credits, the stock market and in many other activities. It is a fact that· b~siness is in the process of settling down to a normal status that has. long been anticipi!ted. The honeymoon is over. Production costs will be scrutinized and professional selling - will be the order of the day. Everyone wi II agree that under .such circumstances a sounder and stronger foundation is in the making. The timber industry knows that optimism tempered with· good judgment and sound business management is the key ·to continued profitable operation. Sure, there can be no profit in inaction. Who is there that would call a situation inactive when the per capita consumption of paper in the United States rose from 160 pounds in 1924 to 358.5 pounds in 1948? Inventories must and will be replenished soon. That is inevitable. So, then the problem is not so much where do we go from here as it is, how efficiently will we function. American industries will continue to supply opportunities, thus, making our country ever greater and greater.-June Lake States Timber Digest. PEOPLE ARE DOWN ON WHAT THEY ARE NOT UP ON. DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND FORESTS MECHANICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM The Department of Lands and Forests established a research program in early February and work has been performed on the projects Iisted below: l. Better pumper operation (more positive pump starting.) 2. New type pumper (if possible 4 cycle.) 3. Hose handling equipment (a) hose dryer; (b) hose "laundry." 4. "Water bomb" tests. 5. "Summer toboggan" (light tractor.) SAVE WEAR AND TEAR ON THOSE TRUCK TIRES! Cover Piutnre Picture through the courtesy of the Brampton Pulp Paper Company, Limited showing a view of the Nipigon iver with the smoke of the Red Rock Mill in the background. '>\( If you are interested in getting extra service out of your truck ti res, the Rubber Manufacturers Association, Incorporated, 444 Madison Avenue, New York, publishes two excellent booklets-"Longer Service From Off-the-highway Tires," "How To Get Extra Service Out of Truck Tires" which may be obtained by writing for them. �PAGE 4 LOG BOO~ JULY 1949 THE FOREST COMMUNITY By D. R. STEVENS (Tfie third of a series of articles by members of the Northwestern Section-Canadian Society of Forest Engineers) A forest is not a collection of stately trees that will stand forever if untouched by greedy man, as some would have us think. A forest is not a mine of wood which we can seal up and preserve for generations to come, as others like to believe. A forest is a community of trees in which individuals live and grow and reproduce and die; in which there is a constant struggle amongst themselves; against insects, animals and disease; against the destructive forces of nature, and of late against the destructive forces of man. The forests we have today are different to those we had yesterday and will be different tomorrow. Let us examine some of the reasons for this, and some of the factors involved. A tree to grow requires food, water, light, and heat. Some species require a better soil than others, some more water than others. Some species can grow in deep shade, others can not. Some trees will grow in cold climates, others will not, and vise versa. These are the factors which determine which trees will grow where in the forest. There are many reasons why we find the kind of trees we do in the places we do, but the causes are principally related to the above factors of soil, light and temperature. We all know that a great many more different species of tree will grow in Southern Ontario and the UQited States, for example, than grow in Thunder Bay District. Temperature seems to be the deciding factor and the extent of the earth's surface on which a spec:es usually grows is termed its range. But if we confine ourselves to one part of the earth, such as this district, we will still find more spruce growing in one place than another, more hardwoods in one area than another, and so on. This is primarily the result of site although there are other causes as will be seen later. A site, in terms of forestry, can be considered as an area in which the factors of latitude, rainfall, climate, elevation, slope, and exposure are all within the same range. All areas falling within this range are said to be of the same site class. Within one district with relatively the same climate and temperature, the main differences affecting site are soil and moisture. The better a site, the better trees wi 11 grow. Thus height of trees is often used as an indication of site, since the better the site the higher trees will grm'f, up to the maximum for each species. However, some trees grow better than others on the same site, such as jack .. pine on sandy soils, cedar and spruce on wet ground, poplar on loamy soil, etc. The site then determines to a great extent which trees wi II grow and how fast they wi 11 grow. A species occasionally grows in nearly pure stands, but usually two or more species grow on the same site. These various mixtures of species is referred to as a type or cover type. The br9ad types are softwood, mixed wood, and hardwood, which are so classified according to the percentage of hardwood in the stand. We have seen that site is the primary cause for the occurrence of different types of stands on different sites, but there are others. Everyone has noticed a spruce and jackpine stand growing on a sandy flat in one area, while in another the same type of sandy flat will be growing an almost pure jackpine stand. Probably in one case the stand is virgin, while in the other a fire destroyed the original stand and consequently reproduced to jackpine. But ·if you look closely under the jackpine stand, you will quite likely see a fair percentage of young spruce growing. Similarly in an old mixed wood or hardwood stand there wi II often be an understory of young spruce and balsam. This shows that the next stand, if the original stand matures and dies naturally, will be of a different composition to the previous stand. The third stand on this same site may be different again. The theory is that eventually one type of stand will occupy one site class and the composition of the stand will remain more or less the same, unless "disturbed by man, or nature in the form of fire, windfall or insect attack. Individual trees will of course die, but will be replaced through natural regeneration. This final type for each site is known as a climax type. Although disturbances as mentioned occur quite frequently, the tendency will be for the stand to change over the centuries to the climax type. One of the forester's jobs is to try and ascertain what the climax type is for each site. The methods of cutting and treatment of the stand may then be designed to ·either hasten the establishment of the climax type in the case of desirable species, or to prevent such establishment in the case of so-called undesirable species. The factor of light affects the rate of growth of trees and also helps to determine what trees will grow on a site. The degree of shading that a tree can stand and still grow, determines what is referred to as its tolerance, although there are other factors affecting tolerance. Species are classified as very tolerant, tolerant, intermediate, intolerant, and very intolerant. Balsam fir is very tolerant, spruce and cedar are tolerant, jackpine and white birch are intolerant, and poplar is very intolerant. This means, as an example, that balsam will normally grow under a heavy shade of other trees better than the other species listed, while jackp:ne and poplar grow best in the open. This information is useful in explaining the behaviour of different stands, in predicting the future of stands after logging and fire and in managing our forests. Tolerance helps explain why jackpine, birch, and poplar thrive so well after a fire or cut, while spruce often comes in as an understory; wr• 1 balsam grows better under a fairly dense mature stand than other species; why poplar, birch and jackpine do not reproduce well under fairly dense stands. Many other factors are also involved, but the question of tolerance is important. We mentioned earlier that trees will mature and die. What makes a tree die? Some trees such as balsam, poplar, a17d jackpine reach a maximum age of only 100• 200 years, while yew and redwood grow to an average of 2000 years and more. Their average age is, of course, much less. These maximum ages increase with the durability of the wood itself, but there are many contributing causes to death. The live cells and tissues of the tree may not necessarily wear out but the dead tissue or. heartwood weaken mechanically through decay. When a tree becomes old it is less able to heal scars quickly and Continued on Page 13 �JULY 1949 PAGE 5 LOG BOOK . ' l •- MlTE or MIGHTY The Accent Is On Experience YES ... Over 200 years of accumulative 11 KNOW-HOW 11 go into ea:h unit bu:lt by Superior-Lidger.: wood-Mundy . . . From this vast back-leg of experience in design and manufacture come the sound features wh~ch distinguish LIDGERWOOD produc~s. 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Whether your application problem is Yarders, Skidders, Loaders1 Jammers or Stiff Leg Derricks (with or without Swinging Booms), hoisting or haulage of any nature ... there is a Lidgerwood in a complete range of speeds, line-pulls and drum combinations to do your job. You are invited to submit your application problems . . . Recommendations will be given without obligation. *See Advertisers' News, Page 13, July, 1948 issue of Log Book . • Delbert L. La Fleur TIMBER PRODUCERS EQUIPMENT 509 Lyceum Building Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A. Care of Nesco Fort William, Ontario �PAGE 6 LOG BOOK .JULY 1949 BUOYANCY OF PULPWOOD AND SINKAGE LOSS Summary of the results of the study of the factors affecting Sinkage and Floatability (1927-1931) (EXTRACTS FROM FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY REPORTS) As Compiled By A. R. WHITE 1. The best floater among our pulpwood species is white spruce; black spruce and jackpine have medium floatability and balsam has poor buoyancy. This applies to green or very slightly seasoned wood. 2. Log diameter, particularly in small wood, is the most important single factor affecting floatabi Iity. 3. Top logs have somewhat poorer buoyancy than logs of the same diameter from the middle or butt ;portions of the tree. 4. Rapidity of growth as it affects density has little influence but apparently very rapid or slow growth is detrimental. i . Percentage of sapwood is exceedingly important. Sapwood contains more water and is more permeable than heartwood so a high percentage of sapwood means a loss in both initial buoyancy and buoyancy-maintaining ability. The per cent of sapwood usually decreases with the age of the tree, and greatly increases from the butt to the top which accounts to a large extent, for the poor floatability of small logs. 6. The amount of sap in a tree fluctuates throughout the year. This should be considered when determining the best season for cutting. 7 . The presence of knots has a limited detrimental effect on buoyancy. 8. Defective logs may have as good or better initial buoyance but their buoyancy - maintaining ability is less than for sound wood. 9. Dead wood (fire-killed, windfall, etc.) has good floatability and low sinkage loss, even with logs of small diameter. 10. The presence of bark is detrimental to wood buoyancy. 11. On a long drive there is greater sinkage loss in short bolts than logs. 12. Spring or summer-cut wood wi 11 have a better chance than fall or winter-cut wood due to the advantage of better seasoning. ' 13. Seasoning is the best key to a solution of the sinkage problem. In the worst cases seasoning should be facilitated by peeling. 14. Salvaged sinkers will float for a long time if wel I seasoned before being re-watered. 13. Logs in quiet water have about the same buoyancy as logs in agitated water. 16. Increase in water temperature slightly improves the initial buoyancy or retards water absorption, and vice versa, but the effect is nullified in the long run. 17. White birch will float for a long time if cut in summer and wel I seasoned. 18. Butt logs of birch float better than middle or top logs, but the difference is not nearly as pronounced 1 GENERAL MOTORScT.,~~EDJESEL ENGJNES • SO H.P. TO 600 H.Po 55 H.P. TO 660 H.P. PACKAGE FINGER TIP SHIFT CONTROL IS MADE POSSIBLE • BY THE G.M. HYDRAULIC MARINE GEAR, STANDARD WITH ALL 3, 4, 6, AND TWIN G.M. UNITS POWER UNITS OR FAN TO FLYWHEEL UNITS FOR ALL YOUR POWER REQUIREMENTS IMMEDIATE DELIVERY . . . SALES - PARTS - SERVICE PIGOTT TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT LTD. ALLIS CHALMERS TRACTORS - 906 Memorial Avenue GENERAL MOTORS DIESEL ENGINES PORT ARTHUR Phone 5-8141 �JULY 1949 LOG BOOK as for softwoods. 19. 60-year birch floats much better than 130-yearold birch of the same size. 20. Red heart, caused by growth of a fungus, Torula Lingniperda, has a limited detrimental effect on buoyancy. 21. Peeling greatly facilitates seasoning of summer:ut birch. Leaving the tops on after felling probably has the same effect, although some of the observations on this disagree. 22. Salvaged sinkers of unseasoned white birch, greatly improve their buoyancy-maintaining abilty by proper seasoning after recovery. 23. Reduction of 20 per cent of original moisture of summer-cut birch is sufficiently effective. 24. Severe cracking of birch logs due to very thor-• ough seasoning, is not detrimental to their buoyancy. 25. Summer-cut poplar, peeled and seasoned, will float well enough for an ordinary drive of our season's duration. Recommendations ( 1) . A. Reduce sinkage loss through: l. Better seasoning of wooda. Storage of wood cut in the usual season (late fall and winter) with selection of such places and in such a manner as to prevent wood from absorbing water and to faci I itate the drying. b. Later watering of wood which was cut frozen, to give it a chance to season in spring, providing drive conditions permitted, and this delay will not result in the increase of the period during which the wood will be kept in water. c. Earlier start in fall and winter cutting. d. Barking wood. e. Spring or summer cutting. f. Spring or summer cutting combined with peeling of bark and loose piling on elevated skids (for worst floaters on long drive). 2. Speeding the drive and towing, that is, eliminating avoidable delays through which the period that the wood remains in water is prolonged, particularly avoiding those delays which would result in leaving the wood in water for an extra season. B. Utilization of hardwoods, particularly white birch, which is usually left on the stump, due chiefly to the unjustified fear that it will not stand the drive without a prohibitive sinkage loss. Birch should not be driven in the green condition, but it should be cut in summer, and well seasoned to be driven next spring. For a long drive peeling may be recommended and fairly loose piling on elevated skids, or, perhaps, previously to bolting, also leaving the top on the pole for a period, to allow it to drain out the sap. C. Money, labour and wood should not be wasted in futile attempts to drive wood which is apt to sink. l. Attention should be given to identification of prospective sinkers in advance (on the basis of information given here); also to estimating in advance sinkage loss for the given drive conditions; then, to co-ordinating this with the ~egulations and practice of cutting and culling wood. For instance it is impractical to handle logs of two, three and possibly four inches in diameter in order to drive them in green condition, in case the drive is very long and wood stays in water for two years or more; the sinkage loss would be prohibitive. Such small logs of softwoods, particularly of balsam, in the case of very long (slow) drives, should be well seasoned, and if possible, also peeled, or they should not be cut at all, in spite of the great desirability of close utilization of wood and also fire hazard considerations. PAGE 7 With Pulpwood Companies Realizing the Vital Need of MORE ECONOMICAL PROD U·CTION there's an increasing trend to mechanization. One of the leading steps in this direction is the increased number of power saws being used in woods operations. STREAMLINE YOUR PULPWOOD CUTTING with Efficient, Eci>nomical P.M. One-Man Chain increase your production decrease your cutting costs. Made in Canada. FOR INFORMATION, SALES, SERVICE AND POWER SAW SCHOOL Call or Write t'l: P.M. PRODUCTS (1947) LTD. 278 BAY STREET, PORT ARTl:iUR, ONT.. �LOG BOOK PAGE 8 Forest Fire Prevention By C. R. MILLS In a recent article on forest fire protection the statement was made that "Our weakest spot is our means of forest fire suppression." It is agreed that, great as the strides have been in advancing the methods of forest fire fighting in Ontario during the last thirty years, there is still room for great improvement, but to say that the weakest spot is in fire suppression seems to be putting the ca rt before the horse. Forest fire prevention is the key to forest fire protection! Organized forest fire protection in Ontario came into being with the passing of the first Forest Fires Prevention Act in 1917. Since that time continued efforts have been made to bui Id up an organization to combat forest fi res,and while the progiess has been slow, at times even disheartening, it still has been progress, so that the protection organization today bears little resemblance to that even of 1928. Greatest efforts have been directed to improvements in staff, means of fire detection and of fire suppression with prevention taking a minor role. The reason? Ignorance on the part of the public in general and the various governments in particular as to the necessity of fire prevention and therefore a lack of funds sufficient to enable the department to carry on any real prevention campaign while at the same time trying to build up the necessary organization to combat the fires which occur annually. There seems never to have been any great difficult~, in obtaining funds to fight burning fires, but to get sufficient funds for a real attempt to prevent fires starting has always been impossible-and the ridiculous, even pathetic part of it is that, while it must be done, it is hard to imagine a more wasteful and inefficient method of spending public money than in fighting fire. And what is there to show for the money so spent, the million or more dollars it cost the public to fight the two Mississagi fires last year for instance-a thousand square miles of devastation! It is suggested that as one means of educating the members of the Legislature, they be given the opportunity of viewing this burned area-from the ground! An examination of the annual reports of the Department of Lands and Forests indicates that since 1921 the number of fires reported each year has been fairly constant at about 1200-1300. There has of course been the occasional exceptional year with the number dropping considerably below the average or going equally ROY -GIBBON JULY 194~ far above. During this period the number of people using the woods has increased tremendously, and it is reasonable to say that at least some have be.come fire con·scious but the fact remains that since i 921 the protection organization has been able to just about hold its own as far as prevention is concerned, which is not good enough. Why do we have as many fires today as we had 27 years ago? Just because the people of this Province have not been made forest fire conscious. The responsibility for this lack of fire consciousness is partly but not all that of the various governments. The forest industry itself must accept some of that responsibility. Individually, some companies have done a lot particularly with respect to fire suppression and fire prevention on their own holdings, but as an industry much more might have been done. Not until 1948 did industry take any action as a group to obtain better forest fire protection for the Province, this in spite of the fact that in 1923 over 3300 square miles and in 1936 roughly 2000 square miles were burned with the area in each of several other years amounting to around 1000 square miles. As a direct result of the 1948 fires the Ontario Forest Industries Association which represents companies holdin,£! over 70 per cent of the timber cutting rights in the Province, presented a brief on Forest Fi re Protection to the Minister of Lands and Forests. Later at the invitation of the Minister, the Forest Protection Committee of the Association met with representatives of the Department to discuss some of the recommendations con-. tained in the brief and the Department suggested the formation of joint regional advisory forest fire protection committees made up of representatives from the Department and from the industry. This could be one of the most forward steps in the history of protection in Ontario. Both the Department and the industry are vitally interested in forest fire protection, it is imperative to both that protection be improved to the point where it is comensurate with the risk and that point can be reached only by the fullest co-operation on the part of the two parties most concerned. Those selected to act on these committees have an important task to perform and if fully cognizant of their duties may well shape the future destiny of forest fire protection in the Province of Ontario. FOREST FIRES-1948 Fire fighting costs in Canada in 1948 were $2½ million, the highest on record. Total area burned was 3,185,000 acres, an increase of 70 per cent over previous 10-year average. 82 per cent of the fires were manmade and therefore preventable.-C.P.P.A. News Bulletin, May, 1949. AGEN~IES INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES 5-8352 PORT ARTHUR 45A CUMBERLAND ST., S. Special Agent For DOMINION RUBBER COMPANY MECHANICAL RUBBER GOODS V BELTS HOSE (all types and sizes) SUCTIONS HOSE FLAT TRANSMISSION BELTING ETC. Carried in Stock Multiple and F.H.P. V Belts Your enquiries on Rubber Goods are solicited and Expert Advice Obtained for your Problems �LOG BOOK JULY 1949 PAGE 9 COCURANE'S JULY SALE FISHING TACKLE AND SPORTING GOODS CLEARANCE at 25% Off For all your Household Needs SHOP AND SAVE AT COCHRANE HARDWARE (PORT ARTHUR) LIMITED S. CUMBERLAND STREET YOUR FAVORITE SHOPPING (;ENTRE PHONE 5-7345 U.P.P.A. Woodlands Section Fire Protection Meeting At Beardmore A successful meeting was held at the Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited Camp i 7, nine miles east of Beardmore on June 16th and 17th. 70 delegates were present representing companies in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Manitoba. The meeting was under the chairmanship of Mr. J. H. Merrill, chairman of the Fire Protection Committee, and it was agreed by all that the meeting was well worthwhile. Interesting papers were given by H. W. Beall, chief, Fire Protection Division, D.F.S., A. Koroleff, Director of Woodlands Research, Pulp & Paper Research Institute of Canada, T. E. Mackey, Chief, Division of Forest Protection, Department of Lands and Forests and several others. Fire pumps, fire equipment, communications equipment were on display by the manufacturers of the equipment. A very interesting contest was staged between the Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited fire crew and the Department of Lands and Forests' fire crew from the MacDiarmid Ranger station. Each crew consisted of eight men and foreman and the test was to have two streams of water on a fire taking into consideration the following points: 1. Elapsed time between detection and appearance of two streams of water on fire. 2. General organization and efficiency. 3. Layout hose line-check on kinks, twists. 4. Signal system between nozzles and Siamese and use of Siamese. By a very close margin the Brampton team defeated the Department of Lands and Forests' team. The Department of Lands and Forests' Ranger Station at MacDiarmid was also inspected including the base aircraft, ( 1 Norseman, and 1 Beaver), and other faci Ii ti es. Mr. W. A. E. Pepler announced that it is planned to hold another meeting with Silviculture as the main topic at the Iroquois Falls limit of the Abitibi Power & Paper Company, Limited in late August. BOY SCOUTS TESTED FOR FORESTRY BADGE BY DEPARTMENT FORESTERS Mr. R. Boultbee and Mr. Pierce of the Department of Lands and Forests instructed and tested Port Arthur Boy Scouts for their forestry badge. The Boy Scouts taking the instruction finished off by spending the morning planting trees at the Department of Lands and Forests Nursery, Thunder Bay District. PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO IN THE DAZE OF PAUL BUNYAN-'KING OF THE LUMBERJACKS' (TM REG. U.S . PAT. OFFICE) .HE TIME TWO SUMMERS CAME AT ONCE GAVE THE B"RN CRliW A PERPLEXING PROBLEM II THE. "ORSEFLIES GR.EW TO UNBELIEVABLE PROPORTIOJ.!S 6UT-TME BOY.S MANA(;ED TO Pit-! MOST OF THESE. FEROC.IOUS PESTS TO THE WALL WITH PEAVIES EXCEPT ONE RA.S.k:E'L TH"T KEPT 61.0WING OUT FUNG1'S l.AfOO'S J.A.NTERN. • UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, FACULTY ·oF FORESTRY 1948-49 'REGISTRATIONS First Year Students 57 Second Year Students 66 Thi rd Yea.r Students 93 Fourth Year Students 87 TOTAL 303 �So far this year the weather has helped Enough rain and good forest growth have kept the fire hazard l~w Years to Gro\V .. Burnt Lands . KEEP.O But • • • Let's Be Prepared SIGNS POINT TO A DRY JULY AND AUGUST-ALL SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL CHECK THE FOLLOWING POINTS: FIRE PREVENTION Forest Fire Prevention Posters are provided free by the Department of Lands and Forests. Are you using these in your camps, on the roads; portages, etc? Don't forget some · people need CONST ANT reminding. Make use of these Posters! ARE ALL COOK-STOVE CHIMNEYS SCREENED? Are all employees fully aware of the woodworkers' rules? THE FIR IS ONE H (1) NO "TAILOR MADE" CIGARETTES. (2) NO VOGUE, EGYPTIAN ZIG ZAG OR OTHER HEAVY CIGARETTE PAPERS. (3) NO MATCHES - USE LIGHTERS. (4) NO SMOKING WHILE WALKING OR WORKING. (S) NO LUNCH FIRES OR FIRES FOR ANY PURPOSE. Do you get the forest fire haz;ard so that you have some warning as to what the weather will be like tomorrow? All key personnel should know the fire weather forecast as released by the ranger stations of the Department of Lands and Forests. CHECK AN ON FIRE PREVEN Do your fire wardens check up on tourists, fishermen, etc., in your area telling them of the woodworkers' rules and urging them to be careful? FIRE. DETECTION Do you have communication with fire towers in your area so that you can be warned of fires? • Are all your patrol men on the job? FIRE SUPPRESSION Is a plan of immediate action in case of fire prepared for each camp? Do all supervisory personnel know this plan and the necessity for Immediate Action? Do your supervisory personnel know the high hazard areas in the locality? (Read the article "Fire Hazard Maps" on Page 12 of this issue) Are company employees organized into fire fighting crews? Have these crews been rehearsed in their duties? (Tear out and post q �SOME FIRE STATISTICS inutes to Burn Idle People N (up to June 29, 1949) Sault North Ste. Origin Bay Chapleau Gogama Marie Settlers 4 7 Campers 2 8 6 9 Logging Operations 2 2 Smokers l 19 30 l Railways l 5 2 5 Lightning 1 9 1 Incendiary 2 Miscellaneous 6 3 1 Unknown 2 l 1 Prospectors Road Construction 72 7 45 Total number of fires 7 CENTRAL REGION Total acreage burnt ·origin SEASON LY F OVER BLE CHECK ~UR ON EFFORTS 3 91 15 acres 43 acres 652 acres 1, 190 acres 1,803 acres Ml D-WESTERN REGION (up to June 22, 1949) Port Arthur Geraldton 8 Settlers Campers Logging Operations ·Smokers Railway~ Lightning Incendiary Miscellaneous Total number of fires Total Acreage Burnt MEANS OF DETECTION Ranger Tower Air Patrol Public 17 3 8 6 8 2 l 2 52 4,916 acres 7 429 acres 1 5 8 3 11 28 1 2 NORTHERN REGION (up to June 30, 1949) Origin Temiskaming Cochrane Kapuskasing 14 13 9 Settlers l i Campers 2 Logging Operations 3 7 Smokers 3 6 2 l Railways 1 2 Lighting 1 3 Miscellaneous 27 16 27 Total number of fires 25 acres 1,494 acres Total acreage burnt 800 acres MEANS OF DETECTION Ranger Tower Air Patrol Public l u, Bulletin Board) Sudbury 7 5 4 43 21 1 l 5 1 l 15 4 7 4 12 3 8 2 5 6 3 WESTERN REGION (up to June 30, 1949) Fort Frances Sioux Lookout Kenora Origin 14 17 3 Settlers 4 13 Campers 19 2 2 2 Logging Operations 4 8 i7 Smokers 4 Railways 22 4 10 14 Lightning 3 lncendiary 2 4 Miscellaneous 4 3 Mining Operations 5 Unknown 1 Prospectors 48 36 97 Total number of fires 3,752 acres 1,021 acres 4,920 acres Total acreage burnt �PAGE 12 LOG BOOK JULY 1949 We Carry a Complete Stock of the following Famous Supplies • PUREX WELDING EQUIPMENT • ELECTRICAL WIRE AND SUPPLIES • DOM. OXYDEN GAS WELDING RODS • WALKER JACKS • STELCO ARC WELDING RODS • EVEREADY FLASHLIGHTS • GRAY BONNEY WRENCHES • EVEREADY BATTERIES • Dial 5-6511 MARSHALL-WELLS Fire Hazard laps · By NEIL NYLUND AND D. R STEVENS BROMPTON PULP & PAPER CO. LTD. Fi re hazard maps, or fuel-type maps as they are often called, have been used for some time by various organizations. Their purpose is to show on a map of the desired scale which areas are most inflammable and thus present the greatest potential fire hazard. This year the _!3rompton Pulp & Paper Company Limited decided to draw up fire hazard maps for the most important areas of their limits. The maps used were the type maps prepared for inventory and operating purposes, at a scale of 20 chains to the inch. With .the information shown on these maps it was relatively easy to classify them by hazard areas. The following colour scheme was used: RED-Extreme Hazard. (Consisting of recent cutover, recent burns, blowdown, bad budworm damaged areas.) ORANGE-High Hazard. (Dry jackpine and spruce flats.) BROWN-Medium Hazard (Moist softwood .areas, mixed wood stands.) GREEN - Low Hazard. (Hardwood stands, wet areas.) The above types shown for each hazard is only a general basis of classification. Where speciaf hazards existed in an area it would be marked accordingly. Al though the hazard on some sites change from one season to another, one set of maps representing the average values was decided to be sufficient for our purpose. In addition to the above colouring, creeks, rivers and lakes can be coloured blue to readily show water sources. Company fire rangers are supplied with hazard maps covering their patrol area, and coloured as they are they can be readily understood by anyone p:::>ssessing a rudimentary knowledge of maps. In addition the Con-:pany Fire Inspector is supplied with hazard maps for the most accessible, and therefore more hazardous, parts of our limits. Next year we hope to have maps at one mile to the inch on which we can show fuel-types in a general way and which will give an overall picture of the hazard areas on the limit. The uses to which fire hazard maps can be put are quite obvious but we can mention a few. They show graphically the danger spots for a district. They show where fires are most likely to break out, and if fire does break out they show the classes of fuel lying in the fire's path The work of the fire-fighters can thus be directed to take advantage of the natural fire-breaks and concentrate their suppression efforts in the most dangerous spots. Used properly they can add materially to the ef- A. Glanue Dial 5-6511 Backwards In these prosperous times, those with four decades or more behind them can go back to the days of the early thirties for vivid reminders of economic conditions at their worst, and compare these with the present in respect to standard of living, volume of employment, and possibilities for the future. Their recollections can particularly benefit younger people embarking under present conditions upon careers in society, unaware of the pitfalls of the past. Merchandise was plentiful and cheap in those days, earnings pathetically low, unemployment prevailed on a massive· scale. The following prices are representative of condtions in our own Thunder Bay District in 1932: Eggs ................................................ 2 doz . 34c Picnic Hams ........ ...................... 12c per lb. Bacon ............................................. 20c per lb. Certified seed potatoes, 7 Sc 90-lb. bag Or in the clothing line: 2-trouser serge suits ................. $19.50 The ladies, of course were not forgotten. They might purchase beautifully modelled coats fashioned correctly to the Nth degree for $25 or as this would probably exceed the budget of the average thrifty housewife, there was a choice of tweeds with Vecuna Fox trim for $12. 95, budget terms, of course. Industrial stocks in May of the same year certatnly reflect th conditions. Compare Abitibi at l; International, 5¾; and MasseyHarris, 2¾, with curernt stock quotations. But on the income side we see stenographers considered well paid at $40 per month. Pulpwood cutters converge on the employment offices in droves at the announcement of a few being required to cut 8-foot rough wood at $1 .25 per single cord. Men wanted-a rare request-to clear land at $15 per acre, supply their own provisions and do the cooking . Top wages for general workers, the lucky ones, was $26 per month and board . . Many received $20 and less. The more fortunate with jobs managed to carry on, hopeful of changing conditions. The unfortunate existed in the relief camps 01 on casual employment for which very often they were not physically fitted. In contrast we have today an ample supply of essential merchandise; prices are high but there is indication of establishment at lower levels. Industry generally is housecleaning following sever3( years of wartime and postwar chaotic operation, and JS a result will eliminate unessential and non-productive dead wood . This will have a direct effect on the cost of goods to the consumer. Wages toe are high but it is obvious that they will :-emain so only as long as there is continued demand for the goods that labour produces. The present is, therefore, an opportune time for workers to take stock of their own affairs, following a prosperous whirl that probably has left many quite dizzy, to ascertain if they .Jre providing for their future A depression is not wanted and should not occur with world requirements probably considerably in excess of curernt productivity. But not all of the countries of this world are prosperous. consequently they are unable to pay for all the material things that they need or would like to have, so that an industrialized and agricultural country like ours should expect some form of recession. Those who are prepared for it have been wise. Those who have not st ill have time to start. N. B. Th:s editorial was written by an employee and does not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of the Company.-May-June Mara• 1 thon Courier. ficiency of both the detection and the suppression organizations. �JULY 1949 PAGE 13 LOG BOOK (Continued from Page 4) THE FOREST COMMUNITY to counteract insect attacks. Decay will then enter the tree and eventually die or be blown down. Trees with shallow root systems often blow over even before they reach their prime. Each species seems to have a maximum height and diameter to which it has the capacity to grow. Where growth is slow it will take many more ·ears to reach that maximum growth than where growth 1s fast. Thus it is often more a question of a tree growing to its maximum diameter growth for a certain site than it is to growing to a certain age. But eventually a tree will die, others will take its place and life in the forest goes on. Space does not permit a discussion of all factor3 involved in the life history of stands, their relation to each other, or the effect of logging on these factors. The study is complicated but it is one of the forester s most important jobs to understand nature s plan and to make the best use of nature while simultaneously satisfying man s requirement for wood. If we can do this, it will be forest management at its best. 1 1 1 CAMERAS AND "LOUD HAILERS" TO ASSIST IN FIRE FIGHTING The Ontario Dept. of Lands and Forests planes have been equipped with aerial hand cameras to photograph forest fires when observed in their initial stages. The photographs will help considerably in determining the cause of fires as well as th~ exact starting points. The cameras used are equipped with film pack adapters, which permit the exposed film to be removed and processed shortly after aircraft landing. The fire suppression staff has indicated that the introduction of on-the-spot-photographs obtained so far this season, have proved of considerable help in fire control. In addition to taking photographs at the start of fires, the pilots may be called upon to pho_\,o graph the progress of fires which have escaped initial control measures. These are not only useful to the suppression crews, but form invaluable records for subsequent study. Experiments are being carried out by the Department of Lands and Forests in the use of loud hailers to direct forest fighting crews in Ontario. 11 11 11 CANADA 1949-THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF PRESENT CONDITIONS AND RECENT PROGRESS An excellent book prepared and edited by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics entitled, 11 Canada 1949 11 may be ordered from the King s Printer, Ottawa, price 25c each. Anyone interested in our country and particularly the economic and social structure would be well advised to order this book which contains many useful maps and i 11 ustrati ons. 1 11 A. Koroleff spent a few days in Northwestern Ontario attending the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association Woodlands Section Fire Protection Committee meeting at Beardmore. He also visited the Lakehead cities and the Marathon operations at Stevens. THE NORTHERN ENGINEERING & SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED FORT WILLIAM CANADA ONTARIO MODEL HS 2000 1948 U.S. PATENT-41135-6 CANADIAN PATENT APPLIED FOR TREE-LENGTH SLASHER AND LOADER Nesco Equ;pment Ensures - Economical, Speedy, Continuous Operation �JULY 1949 LOG BOOK PAGE 14 CUT OVER, VICINITY OF BEARDMORE, PLANTED WITH OVER 200,000 TREES CREW AT WORK PLANTING THE TREES Natural Regeneration Stopped; Department Plant Trees in Beardmore Area The first large scale regeneration project in this area was undertaken by the Department of Lands and Forests this spring. The project was to reclaim cut-over land that was severely burned by two severe fires in 1945 and 1949. The two successive fires had eliminated any chance of natural regeneration and indeed the soil was exposed to such a degree that danger existed of the area being destroyed by drifting sand. The general terrain of the area selected in the vicinity of Beardmore is quite rolling with small ridges and knolls. The soil is light and sandy and the ground planting conditions were extremely favourable with little brush to contend with. All work was done manually. Planting was done between May 4th and 26th on 260 acres of land. Planting stock was taken from the Fort William nursery and the stock used came from seed picked in the Beardmore area prior to the fire of 1945. Planting stock was used as follows: ' Jackpine 2-1 stock i 40,000 Jackpine 2-0 stock 72,000 Red Pine 2-0 stock 5,000 TOTAL 217,000 (The first figure designated in the stock indicates "S!:RVING LUMBERMEN'$ CLOTHING, BEDDING AND THE TIMBER the number of years in nursery bed and the second ·f igure indicates the number of years in transplant bed.) Approximately 20 men were employed and the trees were spaced approximately 7-8 feet apart. Old logging roads were fairly passable and assisted in the operation. This project was under the direction of Mr. J. Baron of the Port Arthur District Department of Lands and Forests and the Nipigon Lake Timber Company, Limited very kindly made a camp and other equipment avai Iable for the project. MARATHON SCOUT FOREST Twenty-six Scouts of the Marathon Boy Scouts planted approximately 9,000 trees (7,000 jackpine an 2,000 spruce) on an area of l O acres in an old burn nea Marathon, Ontario. The plantation will be added to annually. The planting climaxed a winter's program in which the Scouts gained considerable knowledge of forestry in its many phases. GREAT LAKES PAPER COMPANY, LIMITED PLANTS SEEDLINGS The Woodlands Division of the Great Lakes Paper Company, Limited planted 6,000 spruce seedlings west of Savanne 72 miles from Fort William. The seedlings were planted in a cut over area where natural growth had been destroyed by fire The seedlings are four years' old and were planted in such a way s0 as to permit economical harvesting. OPERATORS OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO" Fort William FOOTWEAR. GROCERIES, FRUITS & VEGETABLES, TOBACCO, ETC. �PAGE LOG BOOK JULY 1949 15 Pictures taken on The Pas Lumber Co. operation at Reserve, Saskatchewan,. where t h i s Euclid Tractor again proved its ability to go out and produce against terrific odds and elements. EUCLIDS DO IT AGAIN! MORE Records Broken! - MORE Satisfied Costo1Ders TOTAL WEIGHT OF LOADS HAULED PER TRIP-535 TONS TOTAL FEET OF LOGS HAULED PER TRIP-107,000 FT. LOGS TOTAL CORDS OF PULPWOOD HAULED PER TRIP-235 CORDS 11 The latter being comparative in regards to weight hauled. 11 WE HAVE AVAILABLE FOR SALE OR RENTAL, EUCLID TRACTORS ,\ND PULPWOOD T RA I L E R S WITH UP TO 20 CORDS CAPACITY. . Showing Adverse Grades Encountered For Further Information Please Contact G. H. GODSALL EQUIPMENT CO. LTD. TORONTO. 213 BAY STREET PORT ARTHUR, TEL. 5-6753 MONTREALX1 _=-·-r., _:--~ I° PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO • l �PAGE 16 JULY 1949 LOG BOOK Annual Report Ontario Department of Lands And Forests Presents Interesting Reading A copy of the Annual Report of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1948, may be obtained from the King's Pdnter, Toronto, Canada. Cash receipts for the year were $10,682,483. with disbursements of $7,598,612 showing an excess in receipts of $3,083,79i. Of the total income of $10,682,488 the sum of $6,855,031 was collected by the Division of Timber Management for crown dues, ground rent and fire tax, etc. To show the im~brtance of the forest •industries to Ontario and the revenue paid by companies and operators to the government, the revenue from Crown Dues and Bonus from Northern and Northwestern Ontario for the year ending March 31st, 1948 is listed below: Crown Dues and Bonus Revenue Central --aegion $ 76,022.87 Chapleau District 93,481.42 Gogama District 525,358.53 North Bay District 501,022.01 Sault Ste. Marie District Sudbury District 167,537.44 Total Region Northern Region Cochrane District Kapuskasing District $1,363,422.27 Total Region Mid Western Region Port Arthur District Geraldton District $1,885,371.13 Total Region Western Region Kenora Fort Frances Sioux Lookout $1,465,006.15 941,955.84 943,415.29 84'1,820.63 623,186.52 142,076.77 122,139.60 408.095.06 Total Region $ ... 672,311.43 The mills licensed during the season under the Mills Licensing Act were: Less than 5,000 ft. daily capacity 544 5,000 to 30,000 ft. daily capacity 661 Over 30,000 ft. daily capacity 49 Number of paper mi Ils 35 1298 The activties of all Divisions of the Department are reported on. This report will be of interest to all concerned with the forests of Ontario. The lightest wood in the world is believed to be tano. It is found in Siam and the Malayan Peninsula. This is the favorite wood of the English for making sun helmets. The heaviest wood in the world, so far as is known, is black ironwood. This wood has a specific gravity as high as 1.42 and is native to the West Indies and Florida keys.-Timber of Canada. ROYAL BANK OF CANADA BOOKLET, "WOODLOTS FOR PROFIT, COMFORT AND PROTECTION" This booklet issued by the Royal Bank of Canada is well worthwhile reading and may be obtained by writ!ng any branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. APopular Salesman They tell a story about a vacuum cleaner salesman who hit a new community and called on a logger's wife. The salesman was what you'd call a going concern ... the kind of a talker who had more words than three women at a tea party. He got his foot in the door and then followed th foot in with the rest of his bulk and the vacuum cleaner. Then· the first thing he d id was throw a hand tu I of d1 rt from the front yard on the living room carpet. "Look here, " said the housewife, "you can't do that. I paid a hundred and fifty ... " "Think nothing of it, dear lady," sa id Salesman Sam. "This little old machine of mine will take care of that. And more, too. Now, notice how I do this." And he went to the bin in the kitchen marked ''Flour" and took a handful which he scattered on top of the earth. As he trod the earth and flour into the rug with ahappy smile the woman of the house was close to tears. "Madame, madame!" chided the salesman. "Have faith in my machine. Now watch this." He took a scoop of ashes from the kitchen stove and tossed the stuff on the once beautiful rug. The housewife wailed and ran to her husband, at that moment entering the front door. "My carpet, my beautiful rug!" she cried. "Look what this man has done!" The salesman had qualms, but only for a moment, then all his fine confidence returned. "Sir, this is a demonstration of the wonders of the vacuum cleaner I am selling. I assure you, this machine will gather up everything I have put on the rug. In fact, I'll personally sit down and eat everything it tails to pick up." The husband looked dark . and menacing. "M·nerva," he said, "go to the kitchen and get the man some ketchup." "Well now," the salesman laughed. "There are l:mits to what a machine like this can eat. Certainly not kechup." "The ketchup ain't for the machine. It's for you," said the logger. "This house don't happen to be wired for electric1ty."-Forest and Mill. OPERATORS TO VISIT LONG LAC LIMITS An invitation has been extended by the Long Lac Pulp & Paper Company, Limited, Woodlands Division to visit their summer operations at Long Lac, Ontario, August 4th. Long Lac are conducting the largest summer operations in this area this year and the trip will be of interest to all who can make it. - Visitors wi II proceed to Stevens to view the mechanical operations of the Marathon Paper Mills of Canada Limited and also to view the natural regeneration on previously mechanically logged areas. LIVI NG COSTS A live man pays 50 cents for a shave. It costs $5.00 to shave a dead man in the morgue. A wool overcoat costs $40.00. A wooden one costs $400.00. A taxi to the theatre costs $1 .00 for a round trip. But one to the cemetery costs $ ·, 0.00 for one-way. Stay alive and save your money. It's easy-Drive Carefully. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS-THEY MAKE THIS BULLETIN POSSIBLE. �LOG BOOK JULY 1949 PAGE 17 J. T. Russell ·Motors 120 N. ARCHIBALD STREET GENUINE FORT WILLIAM, ONTARIO Distributors for: CHRYSLER ENGINEERED PARTS For CHRYSLER INDUSTRIAL-MARINE AND AUTOMOTIVE ENGINES MAIL OR PHONE ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION PHONE 3-7421 . Canadian Science Finds Easy Way Of Barking Trees ~ "JOE BEAVER"' By Ea Nofziger By THE CANADIAN PRESS LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.-Canadian scientists have discovered methods making it easy to strip bark from trees. The tree doctoring saves considerable expense in manufacture of pulp and paper. A secondary effect of the treatment makes the wood lighter and thus easier to transport. Al I pulp trees must be "barked" first. J. D. Hale and D. C. McIntosh of the department of mines and resources, Ottawa, described the procedure in a scientific paper released by the United Nations. The report is one which will come before the scientific conference on the conservation and utilization of resources opening here August 17. The experiments were carired out "in Eastern Canada" by the Forest Products Laboratory. The method is to treat the tree with arsenic applied a paste mixed with flour in a narorw ring cut around the base of the tree. This usually is done in June or July when the sap is flowing in the thin layer of living mntter called cambrium, between bark and wood. Trees are easily peeled without treatment at thi~ season. The experiments show that "trees" may be ki Iled with chemicals during this season so that the bark retair:is the easy peeling quality that characterized it at the time it was killed. The secondary effect of the treatment is that the trees get less water and probably other substances but the net result is only to reduce their weight. Jack pines and balsam fir lose l O to 17 pounds a cubic foot of tree. Editor's Note: Mr. A. R. White of Port Arthur has the patent on the Chemical Treatment of Trees Process. OSCO BLOC KS Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture "But you told me man is the world's smartest creature ... WHEREVER CABLES ARE USED �PAGE 18 LOG BOOK There Is No Magic Formula For Keeping Ont of Accidents There is no magic formula for preventing accidents. There are safety rules that help. But rules alor:ie are no good. You must work with the rules. Safety is not a matter of luck. Beginners need more to rely on than luck. They need to know what Safety means and how to prevent accidents. Safety is an intangible thing. You cannot put your hands on it. It cannot be set out by itself like an axe, a man or a humber. It is interlocked with many other things. Safety consciousness becomes part of your makeup if you want it to be. Every action, whether you know it or not, has a bearing on your safety as well as an influence on the safety of others. Your character; how you treat others; how you live in camp or at home; what othe~s think of you and your attitude toward their ideas and peculiarities; all such things have a certain influence on your safety. There is, then, much to learn about accident prevention in its widest sense. You will not learn unless you JULY 1949 give it attention. If you do not get along with the other men in camp, or if you have troubles at home, your mind will be cluttered up during working hours with thoughts of other things. If you try to get along with others they will take a more personal interest in your welfare. They will try to help you and their minds will be clear to think of wha they are doing. Their safety may affect yours, especially if they work with you or near you. If there is something worrying you, do something about it. Speak to the Personnel man or your boss who might be able to advise you. If you find you cannot rectify the trouble, there is no use worrying about it. Dismiss it from your thoughts. Safety, like success, comes from co-operation with others. Co-operation on the job is a "must" but don't forget co-operation off the job is important too. We have all heard what some people say after an ~,ccident~ "I don't kno~ what I was thinking about," or It caught me by surprise-before I knew it, I was hit." Very likely they were thinking about something other than what was going on. Keep your mind on what you are doing. Co-ordinate your thoughts with your bodily actions and you will help to prevent yourself from being involved in an accident-May Forest and Mill. This booklet printed on "Thrift-Coat Enamel" produced at th-e Provincial Paper Limited, Port Arthur mill, out of wood produced in the Thunder Bay area. J-,,t11,0Juciur; . . . THE "PARAMOUNT" CUB PORTABLE FIRE PUMP BUilT TO LAST-BUILT TO FUNCTION CONTINUOUSLY FOR LONG PERIODS WITH LITTLE ATTENTION Equipped with automatic primer and weighing less than 70 lbs. net, the PARAMOUNT Cub will supply water for effective fire fighting to eight dose-range lines or through a mile of a single hoseline WE CAN FILL YOUR ORDERS NOW ALSO DISTRIBUTORS FOR Dominion Oxygen & Acetylene, Lincoln Electric Welding Rod & Accessories, Dominion Wire Rope & Cable, Dunlop Rubber Hose & Belting. Available from Fort William Stock. Northland Machinery Supply Co. Ltd. 203 HARDISTY STREET Dial 3-7407 FORT WILLIAM, ONT. �JULY 1949 • i. LOG BOOK PAGE 19 BAKER POURS FLOUR FROM PAPER BAG The old-fashioned flour bag seems to have turned to paper, according to the N.Y. Journal of Commerce. Over 60 per cent of all bakery flour in the United States is now being packed in paper. In fact the production of bakery flour paper bags jumped from approximately '10,000,000 in 1947 to nearly twice that number in 1948. - Fraser Voyageur. INDUSTRIAL FORMS . .,.The U.S. Forest Service smoke-:jumping force are virtually barred from public demonstrations because of the increasing number of requests for demonstrations at county fairs and other public gatherings. The smoke-jumping force was first established in 1940 with ten men. Last year the 244 jumpers employed were dropped from planes on 94 fires, totalling 566 individual jumps. The Forest Service planes dropped 346,924 pounds of supplies and equipment to men fighting fires in relatively inaccessible areas. Net savings in fire fighting funds due to the use of smoke-jumpers last were estimated. $131,434 - May Lake States Timber Digest. "I'm through with women, they cheat and lie; They -prey on males till the day they die, They tease us, torment us and drive us to sin"Say, who's that blonde that just walked in?"Marathon Courier. ARE A SPECIALTY WITH US • CONSOLIDATED PRESS 137 South May St. MENTION THIS BOOKLET WHEN YOU BUY FROM OUR ADVERTISERS Fort William, Ont. PHONE 3-8323 LUMBERMEN KNOW Thal for lhe long .. See us for all Types of Grind with Built for Every Special P:irpose DOMINION TRAILERS Truck-Kill~ng • Loads The Solution Is S. J. HILL &SONS LIMITED International HEAVY DUTY TRUCKS International T-ruck Sales and Service PORT ARTHUR • FORT WILLIAM �WIND-,~ . . _DIE s. EL __,,,.,oWER Electric Plants • Operate on low-cost fuel. • Run twice as long per gallon of fuel as gasoline engine. • Produce electric power at cost of only le per K.W. • ' • Require no experience W~PoWin Model DI-3ARE GENE'RATOR ._M_OD_E_L_ _ CAPACITY Dl-3ARE , __ DI_-S_A_R_E_ _ ,_ _ S_K_.w. 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THE VOICE OF THE TIMBER INDUSTRY IN NORTHERN ONTARIO ' �PAGE 2 LOG BOOK MAY 194<; Something New PRENCO HYDRAULIC HIGH AND LOW PRESSURE HOSES WITH REMOVABLE FITTINGS AND ADAPTORS TO FIT ANY SIZE · The unique design of PRENCO HOSE FITTINGS not only ELIMI.NATES the customary HEAVY INVESTMENT in large stocks of ready made hose lines in many lengths and sizes but also greatly REDUCES inventory LOSSES caused by unforseen changes ,n equipment design affecting the length of lines or types of fittings. We Carry a Complete Stock Range in Sizes from ¼ I.D. to lh ,.D . • THE AMAZINGLY NEW WONDER HARD SURFACING COMPOUND For Hard Surfacing Iron, Cast Iron, ~ild Steel, Carbon Steel, and Manganese Steel Parts. Used also as a high quality Cast Iron Welding Compound. Gives many more weeks of wear to Blade Edges, Bucket and Scarifer Teet·h, etc . • We specialize in shop overhauls. It is more economical for the customer _than do:ng their own repairs. lWIN CITY INDUSTRIALEQUIPIENT LTD. Lo3·~·h-: ~·-Industrial-Construction-Municipal and Mining Equipment C F~~ES AND S ''>S - 915 MEMORIAL AVE. PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO �MAY 1949 PAGE 3 LOG BOOK THUNDER BAY TIMBER OPERATOR NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COUNCILLORS WOODLANDS SECTION, C.P.P.A. OFFICER H. 1-1 . STYFFE ............................................. . J. AUDEN ·· ········•···•··························· A. H. MERRILL H. P. KLINESl IVE . SO . S. J. ?>o <'IATI At the annual meeting of the Woodlands Section of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association A. F. Buell, LongLac Pulp and Paper Company, Limited; A. H. Burk, K.V.P. Company; P. V. Lemay, Marathon Paper Mills. of Canada Limited were re-elected as councillors and J. H. Merrill, of the Brampton Pulp and Paper Company Limited was elected as a councillor. SUMMERS' STRIP-LOADER AT HERON BAY Ear istrict were fortunate in J. W. B. Sisam of the Facult of Toronto, who met with a numb itizens to discuss the activities of the stry Association of Ontario. The primar tive of the C.F.A. is to provide for publ!c education on the value of conserving our natural resources and particularly with respect to the impressing on all peoples the importance of protection of forests from fire. We, of the industry, are very proud of the efforts which the C.F.A. have already been making towards forest conservation generally and at this time we would like to wish them well with their new branch in the Province of Ontario and with the new organization which will be set up locally at the Lakehead. It is extremely important to have al I of those who benefit directly or indirectly from our forest wealth working with us in our attempts to conserve and properly use our forest assets. As members of the largest industry in Northwestern Ontario, we can renew our ·efforts to set the pace and the example for members of the C.F.A. There is no better time than at present to set out a reminder here that with the approaching fire season we should be acutely conscious of the various rules to follow in order to prevent fire. Let us then do our part this year and once again give our very best wishes to the C.F.A. in its efforts. H. H. 'BERT' STYFFE. CLEARING LAND?? A Nicaraguain proverb says: "One man in one day with one match can clear l 00 acres." This proverb is wrong! It should read: "One man in one day with one match can DESTROY l 00 acres." j CPPA Woodlands Section Meeting to be sponsored by Brompton. A fire protection meeting of t~e CPPA will be held on the Brampton Beardmore Limits June 16 and 17, 1949. COVER PICTURE THE DRIVE IS ON! Picture through the courtesy of the Great Lakes Paper Company, Limited magazine "LINK." The April issue of the Observation Post (magazine of the employees of the Ontario Paper Company Limited) reports that the strip-loader of .Ted Summers, Woods Superintendent at Hemlo, took out 30 per cent of the wood at Heron Bay last winter. Many operators in Northwestern Ontario have viewed this strip-loader or "sloop" and are following the experiments with interest. IMPORTANT Don't be scared by the two words: Research and Efficiency Research-is going out to look for a change instead of waiting for it to come. Efficiency-is a better way of doing things. • WHAT MAKES A LEADER .The boss drives his men; The leader coaches them. The boss depends upon authority; The leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; The leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says, "Get here on time". The leader gets there ahead of time. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; The leader fixes the breakdown. The boss knows how it is done; The leader shows how. The boss makes work a drudgery; The leader makes it a game. The boss says, "Go"; The leader says, "Let's go." District Log Sawing Champion 5th at Montreal Contest Ludovic Cyr, crowned Thunder Bay District Buck.Sawing Champion at the Fort William Winter Carnival placed fifth in the Dominion Championship held at the Montreal Sportsmen's Show, March 23rd-25th. Cyr represented the Ontar~ Paper Company, Limited and the Thunder Bay Timbe1")perators' Association and made a very creditable showing. The contest was won by Leonard Poulin, a husky 23-year-old farm lad from St. Godefroi, P.Q, who sliced through i 0-inch diameter green spruce logs at a rate of better than one inch per second. 7 �PAGE 4 MAY 1949 LOG BOOK FOREST REGENERATION By J. H. GODDEN (The second of a series of articles by members of the Northwestern Section-Canadian Society of Forest Engineers.) The term forest regeneration refers to the young seedlings, of all species of forest coming up under the mature forest or on cut-over, burned-over or wind-blown areas. Forest reproduction, or natural reproduction, are other terms used which mean the same thing. Generally, in everyday conversation, the seedlings are referred• tc simply as regeneration or reproduction. This natural reproduction of our forests- is a tremendously important thing to future generations and to the future economy of the country. Fortunately the public, who are the real owners of most of the Canadian torests, are beginning to realize the importance of providing for another crop of timber. A!so, in most of the torest industries today, top management is convinced of the soundness of a sustained yieid programme which means the supplying of mills in perpetuity from the area of forest land assigned to them. If a sustained yield policy is to be success{ ul, our forests should be regarded as a crop, and as the mature timber is removed, provision must be made for the second crop. Thus, rgeneration, either by natural or artificial means, or both, becomes an absolute must and the problems associated with the attaining of satisfactory reproduction should be given top priority. Only when ' we can honestly say that we have left our cut-over lands sufficiently restocked to produce a crop at least as good as the one we have taken, can we feel that we have fu:filled our minimum obligations as responsible citizens and forest operators. This is a job for everybody. Every man worki~g in the woods can and should have a hand in protecting and conserving regeneration and advance growth found in the mature forest before cutting. The foreman especially can do much by encouraging His cutters not to needlessly slash the young growth in the course of their work. This may seem like a small thing bu.t when multiplied by all the cutters at work in the bush the country over it becomes a very big thing and each man who so does can feel that he has made a definite contribution to the perpetuation of the industry in which he finds his livelihood. Company management, government officials and foresters all have their part to play as well, in promoting and carrying out r,egeneration surveys, research work on the subject and putting into effect such policies as may be indicated as being necessary to achieve the desireci result. Although a good start has been made on the study of reproduction on cut-over and burned-over lands both by private industry and government we have a great deal to learn. Some of the outstanding problems as yet unsolved are: l. How can we control the species which will spring up naturally on the cut-over area? 2. How can we attain natural reseeding of l 00 per cent of the areas cut-over instead of only a portion as is now the case? 3. What is satisfactory regeneration or how many strong, healthy seedlings per acre are necessary to provide a crop equal to the one removed? Let us consider each of these problems separately as they affect us in Northwestern Ontario: Problem number one concerning the control of species of reproduction is undoubtedly of prime importance if one is convinced that Spruce, for instance, will be just as desirable, in relation to other species, 75 years from now as it is today. Th matter of desirability of a species 75 years from now is only mentioned as a passing thought. There is no answer to it and the general opinion in the pulp and paper industry, at least, is that we should do all in our power to obtain spruce regeneration. Surveys made to date indicate that, generally speaking, natural spruce reproduction is satisfactory in the clear cut swamp types and will produce another crop at least equal to the one removed. On the highland and dry slope areas, the picture is much different. While t~e~e areas are generally fairly well restocked, Balsam Fir 1s the dominant species, by a wide margin. How can we turn the tables and get spruce as the dominent seedling;; This is the essence of problem number one and only a great deal of practical experimenting and tundamental research will give the answer. Problem number two concerning the attainment of natural regeneration on l 00 per cent of the areas cutover is one for pure research. The reasons why portions of a cut-over area remain barren or do not produce conifer seedlings are not generally evident and a complete and exhaustive study of all the factors involved is necessary. Regeneration surveys, five years after logging, on certain areas thought to be representative of conditions in the district, have shown that between 15 and 20 per cent of the areas cut-over are barren or have failed to reproduce a crop of conifer seedlings sufficient to reproduce the stand removed. For the time being, it is generally agreed that the most logical answer is to resort to artifical regeneration (planting) on at least the better sites and the more easily accessible of these fai I areas. Problem number three, which has to do with the determination of the correct number of seedlings per acre necessary to produce a crop equal to the one removed, is of fundamental importance. It is the basis upon which we make our predictions as to whether or not the future crop is assured and as can easily be seen, if thi!:i basis is wrong so our picture of conditions, drawn fro~ regeneration surveys, is distorted. When we assume 60(J Spruce and Balsam seedlings per acre necessary to produce 300 mature Spruce and Balsam trees 75 years hence thus allowing 50 per cent mortality, we are only guess(ng. Perhaps 400 seedlings would be sufficient, in which case our survey based on a requirement of 600 would sho,; a much poorer picture of regeneration than is really the case; or vice versa, if 800 seed Iings are required, our records based on a requirement of 600 would show a muc ~ etter picture than. is really the ca_se. Thus it can Be seen that our basis, the foundation upon whi~h we build, must be correct and sound if we are not to be deluded. This basis can only be established when many measurements and much study have been carried out on all types of forest stands from the seedling stage through to maturity. (Continued on Page 9) ) �MAY 1949 LOG BOOK PAGE , LOOK FOR THE GREEN CORE GREENHEART ON THE 1'IAIN TREE! Guy lines and running lines is a Green Core Line each one is doing a vital job. Each one Smoother running through the sheaves - better spooling on the drum - makes Greenheart a leader in the west coast woods. To men who really know their ropes, Wright's Greenheart is limber and flexible-easy to handle-ready for work with a shorter break-in time. Top quality steel in every strand plus scientific lubrication to reduce internal wear meansLONGER LIFE for GREENHEART Manitoba Distributors: KIPP-KELLY LTD. - WINNIPEG Western Ontario Distributors: TWIN CITY INDUSTRIAL EQPT. LTD.-PORT ARTHUR �MAY 1949 LOG BOOK PAGE 6 Motor Vehicle Accidents Preloadi~ Pulpwood Racks Result Saving Motor ·v ehicle accidents in Ontario took 7 40 Iives and caused non-fatal injury to almost 15,000 persons during 1948. In the vast majority of cases, these accidents might more properly have been termed "common occurrences''-the result of the improper use of our streets and highways. l_mproper use ?f the highways includes not only the wild, reckless, drunken driving of the irresponsible few, but if includes also the negligent, indifferent. thoughtless and discourteous actions of the normally law-abiding majority. The latter group presents a problem more difficult to cope with than the out-and-cut dangerous driving of a small share of our motorists. Inattention, J?OOr judgement, discourtesy and faulty habits may be quite as dangerous under certain circumstances a~ !he foolhar~y behaviour of the most irresponsible ind1v1dual. So-called minor lapses can and do have tremendoL:s consequence. More truckloads per day and less lifting strain on mer:1 are obtained by preloading pulpwood in especially designed racks now being used in the South and tried elsewhere. These are loaded on the ground by the wood cutter and eliminates the use of a top loader on the truck. Extr~ heavy three-inch pipe, bent in the shape of a 1 U and reinforced at the bottom, is used for the racks. The reinforcing provides a raised bottom for the load so that the lower portion of the pipe serves as a runner. Ea~h rack is bui It to a standard unit size that facilitates volume measurement. These are used with self-loading trucks that are equipped with a power-takeoff winch mounted between the frame members behind the cab. The truck body consists of steel channels to accommodate the racks. Two detachable channel skids are hooked on during loading operations. When the truck is spotted the winch cable is pulted out and attached to a rack. Winding the cable pulls the rack onto the truck. After the last rack is on, the skids are unhooked and the load fastened with chains. Normally less than ten minutes are required to unload two e~pty racks, load two filled ones, remove the ramps, __and bind the load . When loading three racks on long wheel base trucks or four racks on semi-trailers the time is somewhat longer. Three sets of racks are normally used with each truck so that there are two sets in the woods and one in tr_ansit. The co~plete unit is manufactured as a packaged kit, and can be installed by local shops in a few hours. Although designed for pulpwood the unit is suitable for fence posts, tie cuts, and similar products. -Lake States 11 Timber Digest. 11 NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ACCIDENT TOTALS Northwestern Ontario Districts No. of Accidents 1947 1948 299 855 366 672 345 Ontario ··••···································· ······•······•········· 22293 27406 Manitoulin, Sudbury, Algoma ........ .. .. Cochrane .................. ........................ ................. Thunder Bay ........................... .... ................ . Kenora, Patricia, Rainy River ........... .. . DRIVE 642 286 559 CAREFULLY PROMPT ATTENTION TO YOUR BEARING NEEDS • R & M Ball and Roller Bearings and Pillow Blocks • New Departure Ball Bearings • Hyatt Roller Bearings • TIMKEN Tapered Roller Bearings • S.K.F. Bearings • Shafer Roller Bearings • Sealmaster Bearings • Locknuts and Lockwashers • OILITE Oil Cushion Bearings and Core Stock Northland Machinery Supply Co. Lid. 203 HARDIST:Y STREET •• Dial ·3-7407 .. FORT w1iL1AM, o ·N T. �MAY 1949 LOG BOOK A Profit Without Honor It would make a very interesting study for some re ~ search organization to decide in just what precise period of our recent history-and for what reason-it became necessary for anyone who made a profit to stammer out his apologies to an oatraged public. If people work, they get a wage or a salary. If they don't get the wage or salary, they, with extremely rare exceptions, quit working. If money that someone has saved and not spent on y_achts or horseracing is put to work, it MAY earn a profit. ~About tw?-thi rds of the time shareholders' . money put in companies makes money, seldom averaging, in this country, more than four to six per -cent. In normal times a third of all companies don't make money, according to government records.) Profit, then, is the "wages" of saved up money, and a reward for its use in such a way as to give the public some service it requires. Once there was a time when rising industrial profits were hailed by everyone because the money companies made, the more they had to spend; the more .they could pay in wages; the more people they could hire; the more new machinery they could install with which to add to the general abundance of goods and raise the standard of living. Well, those were the good old days when life was simple. Now, if a company makes a profit, some people can barely restrain themselves from yelling lustily for the police and many more mutter darkly about the pub Iic being exploited and big corporations grinding e~eryone into pave rty. . By that li~e ~f reasoning, if a company loses money :t should receive a plaque of public gratitude, for it must be performing its services at less than cost. But just as people don't work if they don't get paid, companies must cease to function if they don't make "wages." In that case, the employees lose their jobs. The day has long since passed when either people or companies buried their money in tomato tins in the back yard . Money, to be of any use, must work and it must work for people. Everyone in the country has a partnership in every profitable corporation in the country because practically every such. company pays regularly several times as much money to governments in taxes of all kinds than to its shareholders in dividends. And most companies reinvest more money in fheir business than they pay out in profits to those who own the companies.-Forest and Mill • MEN OF THE WOODLANDS INCLUDED IN ONTA,RIOMINNESOTA PULP & PAPER CO. LTD: 25-YEAR CLUB Many men have served thei-r companies faithfully throughout the past years and following is a list of persons who have served the 0-M 25 years or more and belong to the 0-M 25-Year Club: A. Anderson, G. Anderson, C. D. Beaton, M. Bozak, W. Caron, P. Devlin, F. J. Elders, H. W. Forstrom, J. H. Gardner, W. Hartigan, E. Hurst, A. Huhselak, J. P. Johnson, F. Lenton, E. H. Low, J. H. MacDowell (Pensioned), N. Maler, J. Marien, J. A. Minor (Pensioned), J. S. Paterson, L. Pearson (Pensioned), J. A. Ryan, I. Salgren; H. E. Sigurdson, J. Sjostrom (Pensioned), K. Zulkowski (Pensioned). Made to Cut ind Keep Cutting See this powerful one-man Power Chain Saw in action! Being used satisfactorily in pulpwood cutting in Canada, U.S.A., Norway, Sweden and other countries. Sturdy, light, compact and powerful P.M. WOODBOSS increases per-man production because one man can carry and operate it without strain. Economical. Parts and service readily available. NOTE THESE SPECIFICATIONS: • Weighs only 33 to 37 lbs. • 4 H.P. (B.B.H.P. 2.5) air-cooled motor. • Swivel carburetor permits horizontal or vertical cutting. • Automatic recoil starter. • 14", 20", 26" and 32" cutter bar lengths. For Full Information and' Free Illustrated Folder Call or Write to: P.M. PRODUCTS (1947) LIMITED 278 Bay Street, Port Arthur, Ont. PAGE 7 �MAY 1949 LOG BOOK Page 8 ·------------------------------------------------ Pulpwood Costs Must Be Lower to Hold Market Port Arthur Library Has Something to Offer You By ROBERT PORTER-Librarian, Port Arthur Library Did you know that even though you may live outside Port Arthur, you can still borrow dozens of books from the public library at the cost of only one dollar a year? This is a service worth considering. The public library is anxious and willing to serve people living in bush camps or in rural areas who have no ready access to books, for books today are no luxury, rather they are almost a necessity. Therefore, if you enjoy reading at all, why not consider joining the Port Arthur Public Library? To -do this, write a note care of The Librarian, Port Arthur Public Library, Port Arthur, stating your wish for an application form. This form wi 11 be sent to you promptly (do not forget your address). Complete the application form and mail it to us' with a dollar enclosed and listing some books you would like us to send you. You are free to borrow books, three fiction and three non-fiction at a time. Six books may be held for a _m onth, or even longer, providing you inform us of your desire to hold them. Books can be exchanged for new ones at any time. The borrower must pay postage or transportation costs on the books both ways, a_nd books should be mailed to the library well wrapped in corrugated cardboard or good strong paper. Remember to write or print BOOKS on the wrapper, because printed material travels cheaply. Of course, the borrower is responsible for the cost of a book, if he or she loses it, or damages it seriously. The public library discards old books from time to time, and many of the discarded books may be welcomed in bush camps. We have not a large number and can only supply groups - not individuals. If you wish any, then write us-they will not cost anything, except costs of transporting them to a new home. _ The library publishes book lists from time to time which may assist you in selecting reading matter. We will be happy to place you on our mailing list at any time, or try to advise you on any problem relating to books. The library is here to serve you, it has something to offer you. There are thousands of good books to select from-books which will while away a dull hour just as effectively as the movies. Remember, if you want to learn more about our services (which are as inexpensive to you as we can make them) write, care of The Librarian, Port Arthur Library. Our motto is service-with a smile. EDITOR'S. NOTE: Libraries in other communities in Northwestern Ontario will no doubt offer the same cooperation that the Port Arthur Library does. Further enquiries should be directed fo the nearest library. Lower pulpwood costs must be the aim of the Canadian pulp and paper industry to insure stable markets for its products, W. A. E. Pepler, manager, told the annual meeting of the woodlands section, Canadian Pulp & Paper Assoc., recently. High labor costs and necessity of cropping distant woodlands have led the the industry to experiment more and more with mechanization of logging operations, he pointed out. However, it is only through adherence to mass production techniques that mechanization will be able to compete with conventional methods, he added. Woods operators at present are only slightly mechanized, but fortunately general conditions in the industry are well suited to application of such techniques, he said. Here are some of the items of mechanical equipment on which reports were given; Mechanical Saw - Performance 115-155 per cent over . conventional bucksaw; user requires training and experience; less labor turnover if bush workers owned their mechanical saws. Trucks - Hauling costs reduced by use of larger trucks, increasing yearly mileage; should study costs to determine economic limits for use of trucks. Tractors-Flexible and efficient for hauling sleighs of pulpwood over ice roads and snow roads without a roadbed. Woods experts point out that mechanization is still in the very early stages of development. Woods manager of one large company, however, stated 40 per cent of the company's pulpwood had been taken out mechanically last year, that this would be increased to 75 per cent in 1949. At least two other large operators reported greater use of mechanical equipment. Other points touched on at the meetings included: Silviculture - Steps have been taken by some companies to introduce hybrid species which would produce more pulp per acre. Further study of tree species which produce greatest yield of pulp under Canadian climatic and soi.I conditions was urged. Edward Bonner, chief forester of Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co. at Kapuskasing Ont., reported that company's long term research pro~ gram included surveys on effects of fire on growth, types of seedbeds for proper germination, effects of cutting methods, yield of pulpwood under various conditions. Forest nursery has been established at Kapuskasing which will have an annual capacity of five million seedlings for use in reforestation, since company had found ROY GIBBON AGENCIES INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES PHONE: 5-8352 HENRY DISSTON & SONS LIMITED PORT ARTHUR REPRESENTING: FORANO LIMITED Band and Circular Saws, Knives, Chipper Knives, Hacksaws • CANADIAN INGERSOLL-RAND CO. LTD. 4U and SU Electric Impact Tools 45A CUMBERLAND ST., S. "V" Belt Sheaves, Gears, Chain Transmission Equipment, etc. VIKING PUMP CO. OF CANADA LIMITED Material Handling and water supply pumps etc. Your enquiries are solicited and expert advice obtained for your problems. �MAY 1949 PAGE 9 LOG BOOK COCHRANE HARDWARE (PORT ARTHU.R) LIMITED Headquarters for CAMPERS' - FISHING TACKLE LUMBERMEN'S MINING - SPORTING GOODS CARPENTERS' AND HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES See the 1949 Johnson Outboard Motors at COCHRANE BARDW ARE S. CUMBERLAND STREET (PORT ARTHUR) LIMITED PHONE 5-7345 that artificial regeneration was needed in some cases despite improvements achieved through alteration of logging techniques. PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO IN THE DAZE OF PAUL BUNYAN-'KING OF THE LUMBERJACKS' TM Reg US Pat Off Forest Management - Federal and provincial authorities are taking increased interest in this phase of forest operations. Ontario Government, for instance, is taking an inventory of its forest resources by aerial photographs and ground checking. Management foresters are being appointed to look after inventory control, planning and control of operations. Forest management programs of the province's pulp and paper companies is being fitted in as part of a larger government plan to divide the forest area into management units. D. R. Stevens of Brampton Pulp & Paper reported that, from company's experience, aerial photography of its cut-over areas is more advantageous than ground surveys. Training - Spruce Falls Power & Paper is successfully using four months' course to provide more foremen for expanded forest operations, replacing prewar appren1 iceship system. Trainees make actual reconnaissance of forests to plan cutt-ing and road lay-outs, also study accounting procedures, fire fighting methods, logging use of mechanical equipment, etc. Course promotes exchange of ideas, broadens knowledge, develops appreciation of responsibility and importance of foremen's task, it is stated. Labor Turnover - Rate of labor turnover is ·rising despite improved living conditions and steadier employment possibilities. Job must be made major occupation of greater number of workers instead of just temporary one, it is suggested. Companies should measure turnover rate, find causes, introduce corrective measures.-Financial Post. -. :~~-::••.:__ - ,.~·-~ i) ~- FOREST REGENERATION (Continued From Page 4) In conclusion, we may sum up the whole situation by saying that our observations and records to date indicate that nature generally does a pretty good iob of providing for a second crop. However, as man wishes to improve on and alter nature's work to satisfy his needs, he must spend much time and effort in study, practical experiments and research before he can successfully attain this end. The goal of leaving our cut-over area, fully stocked with what we consider a desirable species is one worthy of our best efforts and should be rated in the business of forest management as second only in importance to adequate protection of our mature forests and young growth from excessive fire and insect damage. <tfeARS AGO w ·HEN THE MISSISSIPPI WAS ON A RAMPAGE PAUL,. PERFORMED ONE OF HIS MANY HEROIC DEEDS. WITH lHE AID OF H\5 SMIRT USED A~ A MAMMOCK STRETCHED ACROSS THE MOR.NS OF THE BLUE OX. - PA.UL ANO MIC&HTY BABE RESCUED THE FAR.MER MOSBACK ANO HIS ENTIR.E FAMILY. The amount of money spent by private indu?try in Canada on increased material costs, new machinery and new plants last year was about $2, 156,000,000-almost as much as the federal goverment's estimate for its enti re budget for 1948-49. �PAGE 10 LOG BOOK MAY 1949 WOODSWORKERS RULES FOR THE PROTECTION OF 'THE LIVES OF FELLOW WORKERS AS WELL AS THE FORESTS FROM WHICH WE EARN OUR LIVING -- FOLLOW THESE RULES: ( I ) No ~~ Tailor Made'' Cigarettes (2) No Vogue, Egyptian Zig Zag or other heavy eigarette papers (3) No Matehes - Use Lighters (4) No SIDokiug While Walking or Working (If you wish to smoke, sit down. Be sure your butt is completely out before you move.) (5) No Lunch Fires or Fires For A~y Purpose If You smoke Use a Rock to When Driving the Ash Tray is there for you to FO ~-Only v.ou can ~-Only v.ou can PREVENT PREVENT FOREST FIRES! FOREST FIRES! (Tear this out and Post �PAGI: 11 LOG BOOK MAY 1949 ••• If You Discover a Fire Beyond Your Control ••• Notify Your Foreman IMMEDIATELY! .. WOODSMEN REMEMBER ! Your Responsibility Is Great The Forest Fi re Prevention Act states: (Sec. 19) For the purpose of controlling and extinguishing any fire, an officer may employ or summon the assistance of any male person between the ages of eighteen and sixty years, excepting only trainmen, boat crews, local telephone operators, telegrapher~ and despatchers on duty, doctors and persons physically unfit. R.S.O. 1937, C.325, S. 17 (4); .i 946, C.32, S. l 4, Amended (2) Every person who refuses or neglects to render assistance when required under this section shal I be guilty of an oHense against this act. R.S.O. 1937, C.325, S. 17 (5), Amended. KEEP OTHERS FROM SETTING FIRES AND YOU WON'T HAVE TO HELP PUT THEM OUT. STS TIMBER -1- WAGES Lose the Forest and You Lose All PREVENT FOREST FIRES ' r Camp Bulletin Board) �PAGE 12 LOG BOOK MAY 1949 We Carry a Complete Stock of the following Famous Supplies • PUREX WELDING EQUIPMENT • ELECTRICAL WIRE AND SUPPLIES • DOM. OXYDEN GAS WELDING RODS • WALKER JACKS • STELCO ARC WELDING RODS • EVEREADY FLASHLIGHTS • GRAY BONNEY WRENCHES • EVEREADY BATTERIES Dial 5-6511 MARSHALL-WELLS Current Outbreak of the Spruce Budworm In the Thunder Bay Region Summary of Mortality of Balsam Fir In Four Sample Plots, 1943-1948 % Mortality of By J. E. MacDONALD and A. A. HARN DEN The spruce budworm, a native forest pest of North America, has occurred periodically in epidemic proportions for more than 100 years. Balsam fir, red and white spruce stands in the New England States, the Maritime Provinces, Quebec and Ontario have been depleted at intervals by budworm attack. Although recent observations indicate that white spruce may be a favoured host species of the insect during periods of endemic population, the recurrence of outbreaks has been associated with successive generations of balsam fir. The current budworm outbreak in Ontario became widespread in the late thirties. By 1948 heavy infestations were present over large areas of northern Ontario from the Cochrane District westward to the Sioux Lookout District. The infestation around Lake Nipigon was first reported in heavy intensity in . 1943 in the Chief Bay area. Observations made since that year indicate, however, that the infestation reached heavy intensity in 1939. Since 1944 little change has occurred in the western boundary of the infestation. East of Lake Nipigon the area of heavy infestation has increased steadily since 1944. In 1947 surveys carried out on the Sibley Peninsula and on the Black Bay Peninsula revealed light budworm infestation on balsam fir and medium infestation on white spruce. Both host species were heavily infested in 1948. The high balsam fir content of stands in the Lake Nipigon area favoured the development and maintenance of a high budworm population. Sample plots established in several areas around Lake Nipigon in 1943 and 1944 showed an average balsam fir content of approximately SO per cent by volume. Sixteen per cent mortality of balsam fir, some of which was probably due to overmaturity, was recorded in a sample plot in the Kaiashk Bay area in 1943. Since then, severe mortality of balsam fir and moderate mortality of white spruce has occurred in a large area west of Lake Nipigon. East of Lake Nipigon in the Northwind Lake and Barbara-Jean Lake areas moderate mortality of balsam fir has occurred. The death of balsam fir from year to year following the first record of mortality varied considerably in different areas. This is illustrated in data from four plots in the Lake Nipigon infestation contained in the following table. Dial 5-6511 Plot Locations Kaiashk Obonga Disraeli Barbara Bay ............ Lake Lake Lake ......... Balsam Fir by Volume 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 ·------- 16 22 34 3 18 19 s 76 8 6 21 93 so 16 23 100 96 22 38 The spruce buclworm population declined in the Hurkett area, south of Lake Nipigon, in 1948. This reduction occurred during the larval and pupal srages and may be attributed in part to attack by parasites and predators. Budworm collections taken in the Black Sturgeon Lake area and reared at the Black Sturgeon Lake Field Station showed an increase in the percentage of larvae killed by a parasite (Meteorus trachynotus) in i 948 as compared to 1947. Pupal parasites were also found to be more numerous in collections reared in 1948 than in former years. One of the chief objectives of the Forest Insect Survey is to keep forest services, forest industries and other interested parties informed on the status of forest insects from year to year. To improve this service, insect rangers have been assigned to each of the forest dis •tricts of Northern Ontario. An important function of the rangers is to contact personnel in the districts regularly to discuss Forest Insect Survey work. Insect rangers may be contacted at any time through the officer-in-charge of the Forest Insect Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie, or·, in the summer months, through the district offices of the Department of Lands and Forests. Information on the status of forest insects is further provided in several bulletins and publications. From May through September each year, the Forest Insect Laboratory distributes monthly bulletins containing upto-date information on insect infestations in Northern Ontario. A detailed annual report is prepared by the ranger in each district containing information on the ~tatus of insects, data on mortality of host stands caused by insects, infestation maps, etc. These ranger reports are submitted to district and divisional offices of the Department of Lands and Forests and to supervisory and technical staff of the forest industries. The "Annual Report of the Forest Insect Survey," published in. Ottawa, provides a yearly summary of the status of forest insects in Canada. The writers, in this article, have attempted a concise outline of recent spruce budworm outbreaks in On(Continued on Page 16) �MAY 1949 - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - LOG BOOK PAGE 13 - - - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 MAP 1 Areas of heavy, mediu:11 and light Spruce Budworm infestation in Ontario i n 1948 determined by quantitative sampling , grour:d and aerial surveys. LAKE SUPERIOR HEAVY INFESTATION ..................... ~ MEDIUM INFESTATION .................. ~ LIGHT INFESTATION ................. ... § THE NORTHERN ENGINEERING & SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED FORT WILLIAM ONTARIO CANADA �LOG 800K Page 14 Pulpwood May Be Agricultural Crop Motor Vessel Safety Requirements Requirements of the law to be observed with regard to motor vessels not in excess of five tons, gross tonnage, as regards equipment to be carr_ied, life _savin~ and fire extinguishing, and the precautions against fire to be taken. Life Saving Equipment • • The following life saving equipment should be carried: One app: ,.>ved lifebuoy (if the vessel is in excess of 20 feet in length). One approved life jacket for each person on board. If more than 12 passengers are carried, approved buoyant apparatus sufficient to accommodate 50 per I cent of the number of persons on board. Fire Extinguishing Equipment . . Fire extinguishing equipment in accordance with the following should be carried: DRY SAND_.__For a vessel of any size-a receptacle containing a suitable quantity of dry sand, sawdust i_mpregnated with soda, or other approv~d dry material, with a scoop for distributing such material. FIRE BUCKETS-For a vessel not exceeding 35 feet in length-One fire bucket. For a vessel exceeding 35 feet in length-Two fire buckets. FIRE EXTINGUISHERS-(variation equivalents or allowable)-For a vessel not exceeding 20 feet in length· One tetrachloride extinguisher of l ¼ quarts capacity, of the hand pump type. . , One extinguisher constructed to discharge froth, ot a capacity of at least l gallon. (NOTE: A vessel not exceeding 20 feet in length, which is propelled by an outboard motor, is not required to carry an extinguisher constructed .to discharge froth.) For a vessel exceeding 20 feet in length but not exceeding 35 feet in length: One tetrachloride extinguisher of l ¼ quarts capacity, of the hand pump type. . • One extinguisher constructed to discharge froth, of a capacity of at least 2 gallons. For a vessel exceeding 35 feet in length: Two tetrachloride extinguishers of l ¼ quarts capacity, of the hand pump type. One extinguisher constructed to discharge froth, of a capacity of at least 2 gallons. Precautions Against Fire A.s precautions against fire care should be taken to avoid leakage of gasoline, or the risk of fire d~e to ~nshielded woodwork or other inflammable material being in too close proximity to hot pipes. PLAY SAFE - If a petition, now before the Interstate Commerce Commission is favorably received, pulpwood may soon be officially' regarded in the U.S. as an agricultural commodity. Classification of pulpwood as a product of the farm and soil the same as grain, forage, and livestock crops_. is reque~ted by the American Pulpwood Association and the American Paper and Pulp Assn. No decision has been reached yet and further hearings are scheduled before the ICC. Practices advocated by the Federal Department of • Agriculture, lqan requirements of several Federal Land Banks and even the Webster dictionary definition, support the argument that pulpwood is by nature an agricultural crop, according to the main petition presented to the ICC by M. H. Collett of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. Other arguments presented in favor of the decision were: Eighty per cent of the U.S. pulpwood supply comes from 261,000,000 acres of small woodland tracts, for the most part owned by farmers. Trees, iike other farm crops and livestock, have the faculty of reproducing themselves and if given treatment can, year after year, produce paying crops from the same area of land. Other products or ~ommodities such as ore, petroleum or gas do not have this renewable characteristic. Therefore a major distinction between agricultural products and other prody_c;:ts of the earth is-their renewability. " • • A great effort is being made at present by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, state agricultural and conservation agencies and private concerns to promote the handling of pulpwood as an agricultural crop.-Lake States Timber Digest. EDITOR'S NOTE: The land ownership situation is different in Canada in that 9110 of the total ·forest area is owned by the Crown, that is the people of Canada. 11 11 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THEY MAKE THIS BOOKLET POSSIBLE BE PREPARED "SCRVING THE LUMBERMEN'S CLOTHING, MAY 1949 BEDDING AND TIMBER OPERATORS OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO" FOOTWEAR. GROCERIES, FRUITS & VEGETABLES, TOBACCO, ETC. Fort William �MAY 1949 PAGE 15 LOG BOOK Pictures taken on The Pas Lumber Co. operation at Reserve, Saskatchewan, where t h i s Euclid Tractor again proved its ability to go out and produce against terrific odds and elements. . . EUCLIDS DO- IT AGAIN! MORE Records Broken! - MORE Satisfied Customers TOTAL WEIGHT OF LOADS HAULED PER TRIP-535 TONS TOTAL FEET OF LOGS HAULED PER TRIP-107,000 FT. LOGS TOTAL CORDS OF PULPWOOD HAULED PER TRIP-235 CORDS "The latter being comparative in regards to weight hauled." WE HAVE AVAILABLE FOR SALE OR RENTAL, EUCLID TRACTORS AND PULPWOOD T RA I L E RS WITH - UP TO 20 CORDS CAPACITY. Showing Adverse Grades Encountered For Further Information Please Contact G. H. GODSALL EQUIPMENT CO. LTD. TORONTO. 213 BAY STREET PORT ARTHUR, TEL. 5-6753 MONTREAL~~ ; s .I : PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO �MAY 1949 LOG BOOK PAGE 16 Sp_mce Budworm (Continued From Page 12) ta'fio, with special reference to the Thunder Bay region. • Complementary to the system of surveys of forest insects, is a program of biological and ecological investigat.igns, carried out at several locations, (e.g. Black Stur-· geen Lake Field Station), and designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the interrelationships of the spruce budworm, its parasites and diseases, climate, and the forest. Such an understanding is indispensable ~to reduction, through remedial action, of the recurrent- losses arising from forest insect outbreaks. Such investigations are necessarily of a lo!'lg-term nature, but interim reports and interesting developments are frequently published in the "Bi-Monthly Progress Report" of the Forest Insect Investigations Unit, wh:ch is widely distributed .and available without charge on request. The mailing lists for the various bulletins, district reports, and printed· publications referred to above, are ·revised periodically, and anyone desiring to be included -o n one or more of the lists should contact the Officerin-Charge, Forest Insect Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie. EDITOR'S NOTE To aid the v a I u ab I e work done by the Forest Insect Rangers, men on timber operations can be of great help by sending samples of forest insects tc> the Forest Insect Laboratory. Boxes for the forest insects may be secured from the Forest Insect Laboratory at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Collections are usually made by spreadi, 19 a grounc, sheet or tarpaulin beneath the tree being sampled and then shaking the tree vigorously. Large trees may be jarred by striking the trµnk with the back of an axe or the branches may be_shaken by using a long pole. It is necessary to place some of the foliage on which insects have been feeding in the boxes. Spiders or ants should not be placed in the boxes as _they will eat other insects. Special Insect Rangers make trips through all districts and these men are always glad to give advice or instructions regarding collections. "'WHY WORRY?" Most of us get grey before our years, but when the truth is known, there are actually only two things to worry about. • That is-whether you are rich or whether you are poor. If you are rich there is nothing to worry about. If you are poor there are only two things to worry about. That is-whether you are in good health or whether you are in poor health. If you are in good health there is nothing to worry about. If you are in poor health there are only two things to worry about. That is-whether you are going to live or whether you are going to die. If you are going to live you have nothing to worry about. If you are going to die you only have two things to worry about. That is-whether you are going to Heaven 0r whether you are going to Hell. If you are going to Heaven you have nothing to worry about. If you are going to Hell you'll be so damn busy renewing old acquaintances you won't have time to worry. So, why worry?-Brompton "Broadcaster." "ONLY GOD CAN MAKE A TREE" By JOYCE KILMER Joyce Kilmer was right . . . BUT WE TOO CAN HELP . . . if we can keep control of forces which interfere with natura, evoiution in the woods. Then millions of acres of Ontariors timber land will be capable of growing to mature and merchantable size, and assure the forest industries ot a steady flow of timber for generations to come. We are told this can be accomplished by the following . . . FIRST and foremost, this means elimination of FIRE - principal woodland threat. SECOND it means turning to count and not wasting fecundity by preserving and protecting seed sou,-ces. THIRD it means harvesting timber according to the capacity of nature to replace and grow new trees ,?~se,.- Only you can • -PREVENT FOREST FIRIS ! ';) FOURTH it means efficient management, with improved methods of logging by the use of equipment specially designed to assist the logger in marketing the mature and merchantable timber at a profit. KEEP ONTARIO GREEN 1 Delbert L. LaFleur FORT WILLIAM, ONTARIO TIMBER PRODUCERS EQUIPMENT Distributors of: LIDGERWOOD YARDERS NESCO SLASHERS AND GRAPPLES �MAY 1949 LOG BOOK Page 17 J. T. Russell Motors 120 N. ARCHIBALD STREET GENUINE FORT WILLIAM, ONTARIO Distributors for: CHRYSLER ENGINEERED PARTS For CHRYSLER INDlJSIRIAL-MARINE AND AUTOMOTIVE ENGINES MAIL OR PHONE ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION PHONE 3-7421 Ontario Paper Company Limited Wins Accident Prevention Contest By D. B. CHANT The Ontario Pulp and Paper Makers' Safety Association sponsors an annual Accident Prevention Contest :n woods operations. The contest is based on the frequency of disabling injuries (expressed as the number of case~ per 100,000 man-hours worked) and all member companies having woods operations involving more than 20,000 man-days worked in the year take part. The amount of lost time caused by the injuries, the kind of injury, or the money cost for compensation an<l treatment do not enter into the contest picture at all. A crushed tee affects the contest standing exactiy to the same extent as a fatal accident; each one is a disabling injury. That goes for strained backs, hernias, frostbites, horse-kicks and scalds with hot soup, or what-have-you. If it a disabling injury and the claim is accepted by the Workmen's Compensation Board, it counts against the score of the company concerned. On that basis, the Heron Bay operations of the Ontario Paper Company ranked, for the full calendar year, 1948, ahead of all other member companies with exposure greater than 20,000 man-days; completing the year with a frequency figure of 43.0 disabling injuries per 100.00 man-days worked. The 1948 group average was 73.4 and the 1947 winning figure was 48.5. Heron Bay's accomplishment in 1948 was deserving of front ranking. An appropriately-worded certificate suitably framed was presented to a representative of the winning company at the 34th Annual Meeting of members on Apri l 4, 1949, at th King Edward Hotel, Toronto, with 218 members and guests present to applaud the presentation. OSCO BLOC KS Mr. Eugene E. Sparrow, Chairman of the Workmen's Cornr;ensation Board, made the actual presentation on behalf of this Association. J. E. Cantin, Safety Director of the Ontario Paper Company, accepted it for his firm. Sufficient copies of the certificate were supplied to cover the various camps, depots and headquarters of the operations where it is hoped they wi 11 serve to encourage continued effective accident control effort in the future as well as to commemorate the successful work already done . Advertisers' News Two new tools-the outgrowth of several years of experiment in land clearing-are now available for all users of ''Caterpi Ilar" Tractors. The "Fleco" All-Purpose Root Rake, and "Fleco" Detachable Stumper, are designed for use with the Caterpi Ilar Tractor equipped with standard dozer equipment. These two tools are needed by, and are useful to the Timber Operator, the Road Contractor, and the one Tractor Operator. The contractor, with these two tools, in a matter of minutes can change from dirt moving tc stump and tree removal, or to piling and grubbing. There is no exceptional ski 11 required to use the "Fleco" Root Rake or the "Fleco" Detachable Stumper. Any good operator in a matter of five to six hours can become as good as the best. Further information may be obtained from the Powell Equipment Company Limited. In Canada today it takes more than $5,000 to provide the tools, machines and plant facilities used by a single factory worker. KEEP THE FORESTS GREEN THEY'LL KEEP CANADA OUT OF THE RED WHEREVER CABLES ARE USED �LOG BOOK PAGE 18 BE CAREFUL! PREVENT ACCIDENTS 5. Boats must never be overloaded. The number of men to be allowed in any boat must conform with the Company regulations. Total capacity must be indicated clearly in paint on the boat. 6. Men must not smoke or use matches when fi 11 ing a gasoline tank. 7. Boats shall be lined down dangerous rapids with one rope only. 8. All motor boats shall be equipped with a flashlight in good working order. 9. Paddles or oars shall be available in all motor boats for emergency use. I ,;cuscuscuswcuswwcuswwww4SAFETY TIPS (From the "Code for the Prevention of Accidents in Logging Operations" by the Quebec Pulp & Paper Safety Assn. Inc. Quebec-1947.) BOATS AND CANOES 1. Boats and canoes which are damaged and therefore unsafe, shall not be left where men might use them. They must be repaired, destroyed, or taken away. MAY 1949 DRIVE 1. Walkways must be provided on the wings of all dams. 2. All gasoline boats with inboard engines shall be provided with at least one fire extinguisher, in good working order. 2. Foot bridges across small streams must be equipped with guard rails. 3. Boats with outboard motors must be provided with an old blanket, bucket of dry sand or a fire extinguisher. 3. When breaking out railways workmen shall work at the side, never in front or on top of the roll~ay. 4. Motor boats must always have sufficient life preservers to allow one for each member of the crew. When transporting men, there must be sufficient life preservers for all on board and, or, a seaworthy boat must be in tow, sufficiently large to take care of all passengers. RIVER DRIVERS The Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited in the interest of safety and accident prevention have issued instructions that all river drivers must wear caulked boots. BIG OPERATIONS CALL FOR BIG EQUIPMENT G.M.C. i~iv TRUCKS Gasoline and Diesel ... Are Designed for Big Jobs . All G.M.C. Trucks from 3½ to 50 'Tons Capacity are Sold and Serviced by PIGOTT MOTORS LIMITED 543 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg LAKEHEAD REPRESENTATIVES Sales - 906 Memorial Avenue Parts - Service PORT ARTHUR Phone 5-8141 �PAGE 19 LOG BOOK MAY 1941 unity between the various b_ranches of the Timber Cullers' Association, K. Mason, Sam Cowan, and J. R. Denley represented the Port Arthur Branch. Timber Cullers' News Thunder Bay Branch Another successful Annual Meeting of the Thun• der Bay Branch of the Timber Cullers' Association was held in the New Legion Hall, Fort Willam, April 18th. Officers were elected as follows: Past President - W. H. Jarvis; President K. Mason; Vice-President - Joe Hughes; Secretary - J. Denley; Executive - Sam Cowan, J. E. Peden, G. Lalonde, J. Horn, L. Mask, W. Reid. The guest speaker was Mr. A. J. Auden, Woods Manager of the Port Arthur Division of the Abit,bi Power & Paper Company, Limited and Vice-President ot the Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association. Mr. Auden made it clear that he was addressing the gathering as a private citizen and not in any official capacity and his address was so inspiring to the gathering that it was requested from the floor that copies be mimeographed and distributed to all members. Western Region Branch The Annual Meeting of the Western Region Branch of the Timber Cullers' Association was held in Kenora on April 23rd. • Officers elected at the meeting were: President-John Anderson; Vice-President-Al Ian Shaw; Secretary-Art Clempson; Executive--P. Janow, P. Borup, D. G. Turner, J. McArthur, J. Wynd, A. K. Mclay, A. McNevin, F. Nichol, F. M. Dodds, G. Vezina. In keeping with th~ policy aimed at strengthening Northwestern Region Branch The Annual Meeting of this branch was held in Sudbury on April 30th, but at the time of going to press no details were available of the officers elected. Les Murphy, Fred Smith, and J. E. Peden represented the 1hunder Bay Branch at this meeting. ICanadian Society of Forest Engineers News Two successful meetings of the Northwestern Ontario Section, Canadian Society of Forest Engineers have been held in Port Arthur recently. On Apri I 8th, Mr. Keith Atcheson of Kenora, Regional Forester; Western Region and a member of the Section addressed the members on Forest Fi re Protection. A Canadian Forestry Association movie, "Then It Happened," was also shown. Another successful meeting was held on May 4th and J. W. B. Sisam, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Dr. M. L. Prebble of the Insect Laboratory at Sault Ste. Marie and Professor J. 0. Wilhelm, Director of the Ontario Research Council addressed the mE3mbers. Mr. Paul Ward, Secretary of the Section reported that the membership is growing and all foresters in Northwestern Ontario are urged to join this Section. INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS FOR PROVED HEAVY~DUTY PERFORMANCE International Trucks are famous for their rugged con!truction, economical performance - and low maintenance cost. There's a model far every purpose, with strong empha~is on . off - the - highway operation as well as long distance hauling. Large Supply of Repa=r Parts On Hand at All Times e us fer all Types cf A.~NION ,: r TRAILERS Every Spedal ... ,npase S. J. HILL &SONS LTD. International Truck Sales and Service PORT ARTHUR • FORT WILLIAM �7DAYLOAN J LOG BOOK 1949 For Stump, Tree, and Rock Removal Use a ,, FLECO '' tool - "Fleco Detachable St.umper" pushed this tree over ,1nd out of the cleared field in less than one min ute. Ave ra9a.s a stamp per minute in a stump-studded field . Close-up of the "Fleco Stumper." T he teeth bite into the stump lifting as well as pushing it out . The Stumper can be mou nted or dismounted 15 minutes -after the bulldozer blade h·as been removed. "Fleco Root Rake" clears a n average of an acre per hour of toughest- underbrush, clears land faster, at less cost than ever before. Sixteen inch penetration of teeth removes all scr:1bble, yet sifts and levels valuable top soil. -"Fleco Rock Rake" r e m o v e s and gathers rocks, boulders, and stubble from the soil; deep tooth penetration and tooth design eliminate the need for digging and dozing required by conventional bulldozer. The "Rock" Rake extracts the rocks only. The three 11 Fleco" Tools-Stumper, Root Rake and Rock Rake-are designed for their jobs; jobs the conventional bulldozer blade was never meant to do. They offer a n·ew solution to an old problem, land clearing and road building; with one or all of these "Fleco" Tools these may now be accomplished in less time, at lower cost than ever before. We'll be pleased to send you the complete "Fleco" Catalog in which you'll see pictured the "Fleco" Tools in action-tools that are designed for the job. PJJWEll E(!UIPMENT t:OMPANV Lll\lITED 115 N. CUMBERLAND ST. PORT AR'tH UR, ONT. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Log Book - Timber Operators' Association Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1949MayLogBook Title A name given to the resource Log Book - May 1949 Subject The topic of the resource Forest Products Industry Description An account of the resource Log Book, published by the Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association. May 1949. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949-05 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared with permission of the Ontario Forest Industries Association Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/02d36b67294528056de8aeb3b13a79a2.pdf 4e9e1a5c8cd797ad43738265b34fbed7 PDF Text Text MARCH RETURN TO FOREST IBRAR Vloods Division Marathon Corp. of Can·ada Ltd. Port Arthur, Ontario �PAGE 2 MARCH LOG BOOK -;- ........,.._..,.: ".'.. 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PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO �MARCH PAGE 3 1949 Buck-Sawing Competition ASuccess Competitors ACredit to the Industry p~ ~ t' - The cut and t'~ ul fo t 948-49 season is about completed. Once again our Association was able to .arrange and orga a number of field trips at which all member companies were able to have a peek at what the other fellow was doing. The success of these trips is evident by the increasing interest and number of .company personnel who take part in the tours. The Operators' Association wishes to thank most heartily those companies who so kindly and generously volunteered to make these field trips possible. To date we have not had a spring or summer field trip. It is the intention of the Association to arrange one or two such trips during '49. If any company feels it might have a spring or summer operation of interest to the operators as a group we would be much pleased if our manager could be advised The season for forest fires will soon be on, and it js the duty of every operator to see that equipment is jn order, crews organized and everything in readiness so that this year forest fires can be quickly brought under control. Consderable work is being done in establishing torest fire committees to co-operate with the Department of Lands and Forests officers and, with the utmost co-operation between the Industry and the Department, the destruction by forest fires should be kept to a minimum. H. H. "BERT" STYFFE Talking At Meals It is more or less the standard rule that there is no talking in the cook houses in the bush camps. The Forest and Outdoors magazine from ti me to time has excellent articles by Paul P. Cullwood. Paul worked and got most of his woods experience in the Thunder Bay area and, in an article in the February issue of the Forest and Outdoors, tells about teaching· D.P.'s. Paul says: "At breakfast, Napoleon was more than affable. 'Cullwood,' he said, 'now that you can talk to our Ukrainian friends, suppose you begin by telling them not to talk at meals: "This business of not talking in the cookery is an ancient bush tradition. Some say it is intended to speed up the procedure of feeding; others argue it's so the cookees can hear orders for more grub. I believe it started among the oldtime lumberjacks of Maine and Nova Scotia. Those old boys used to argue politics. Then those old boys used to tear the cookery apart." There is some question as to whether or not this condition should be amended. It certainly is a fact that the 'no conversation' rule tends to make the men eat rapidly and get out, but at the same time it does not aid digestion. Also, the majority of people consider meal time a time for conversation about things of interest and the woods worker is, in fact, no different from any one else. At the same time, conversation shouldn't be permitted to interfere with the cooking staff. One company has taken a step in this respect and put signs in all their cook houses 'Quiet Conversation.' How about it? Thousands of Lakehead residents and visitors to the Winter Carnival witnessed the Buck-Sawing eliminations on February 1st and the finals on February 2nd at Fort William, Ontario. Ten companies held competitions in their camps; camp winners competed in Company or Division Contests and 18 winners were sent to Fort William. The competitors were all an excellent type of man and were a credit not only to themselves but also to the industry as a whole. With a little organization and some interest taken by individuals, there is no reason why other sports cannot be sponsored in the camps arid co-ordinate in Division or Company Contests. Any suggestions along this line will be welcomed by the Editor. Prize Winners-Buck-Sawing Contest 1. L. Cyr, 24, Pellegin, Gaspe, P.Q., Ontario Paper Co., Limited, trip to Montreal to compete in buck-sawing competition at the Sportsmen's Show; Gold Medal; $25 Cash. 2. Dorio Maurice, 27, St. Remi, Amherst, P.Q., Great Lakes Paper Co. Ltd., Si Iver Medal; $25 Cash. 3. Frank Butler, 20, Barnaby River, N.B., Long Lac Pulp & Paper Company, Limited, Bronze Medal; $15 Cash. 4. Armand Tremblay, 22, Beardmore, Ontario, Brampton Pulp & Paper Compa~y, Limited, $_10 Cash. Log Chopping Contest 1. Edward Guitard, 40, Belle Dunne, N.B., Alexander-Clark Timber Company, Limited, Northern Outfitters' Ass'n. Cup 2. Armand Tremblay, 22, Beardmore, Ontario, Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited. 3. George Coulombe, 33, Hurkett, Ontario, Great Lakes Lumber & Shipping, Limited. Best Beard 1. Amos Thibeault, 37, Maryfield, Sask., Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited, $ i O Cash. Advisory Committee On Forestry Research, Ontario Research Council, To Meet In Port Arthur This Committee will meet in Port Arthur on May 2nd and 3rd, 1949. Dean J. W. 8. Sisam of the University of Toronto is chairman of this committee and the tentative program is as follows: Monday, May 2nd Entomology as a factor in long-term managementM. L. Prebble; Integrated utilization-J. H. Jenkins, T. A. McElhanney (including chemical barking, bark utilization, etc.); Chemical utilization of wood-H. 8. Marshall; Pulp mill efficiency-T. L. Dunbar; Information services and research services-D. F. MacRae. Mechanical logging-P. V. LeMay; Motion picture on logging-P. V. LeMay. Tuesday, May 3rd Visit Great Lakes Lumber & Shipping Limited mill; Visit Great Lakes Paper Company (large newsprint machine); Visit Provincial Paper Company mill (coated paper process.) This will be the first time that this committee will meet in Port Arthur and discussions and visits should be of interest to members of the committee as well as to operators in this locality. �PAGE .4 LOG BOOK MARCH 1949 FORESTRY NEWS The Commercial Tree Species of Northwestern Ontario By H. H. STYFFE (The first of a series of articles by members of the Northwestern Ontario Section-Canadian Society of Forest Engineers). There ore a great many species of trees which can be used commercially in Northwestern Ontario. From a volume and monetary point of view, the most important of these species are the spruces, balsam or balsam fir, jackpine, poplar and birch. However, it is intended in this article to cover, in a brief and general way, some of the characteristics of each of the species regardless of its degree of commercial importance All plants, including trees, have been given one or more common names as well as a scientific name. The first word in the scientific name is the name of the genus in which the tree or plant belongs. These words are always Latin words with Latin endings. The reason for this is that Latin is a dead language no longer used, and is not subject to change. Latin names, then, for trees would be clearly understood in all countries and for all time to come. Sometimes a third word or name is added to the scientific name. The purpose of this is to indicate additional varieties of a species within the same genus Listed below for your information are the Northwestern Ontario trees with their common and scientific names. GROUP I - SOFTWOOD OR CONIFERS Common Name Scientific Name Black Spruce Picea mariana White Spruce Picea canadensis Balsam Abies balsamea Jackpine Pinus banksiana Norway or Red Pine Pinus resinosa White Pine Pi nus strobus Tamarack or Eastern Larch Larix laricina North White Cedar Thuja occidentalis N.B. Tamarack is an exception amongst the conifers in that it sheds its needles annually. GROUP 11- HARDWOOD OR DECIDUOUS Common Name Scientific Name Betula al ba papyrifera Birch Poplar or Aspen: ( 1) Large Tooth Populus grandidentata (2) Trembling Leaf Populus tremuloides Balm of Gilead Populus balsamifera Black Ash Fraxinus nigrc BLACK SPRUCE-ls one of the most valuable, if not the most valuable tree which occurs in Thunder Bay Distrct. It is essentially a swamp tree and is usually found on swampy or muskegy ground. It reaches its best size and growth where the drainage is fairly good. Often, it is found in stagnant swamps where the trees have reached several hundreds of years in age but a very small diameter. It is one of our longer-lived trees and the rate of decay after maturity is slow. As a reproducer in a natural way it has proven indifferent. The tree is a prolific seed bearer and on some sites reproduction has been good, while on others, especially where balsam is present, the reproduction op- pears to be predominently balsam. Natural regeneration of this species would be difficult because of the swampy nature of its best sites There are several reasons for its particular suitability in the manufacture of high grade paper and newsprint. The wood of black spruce has particularly long, strong fibres which is a quality required especially in newsprint where the strength of the wide high speed sheets is of great importance. The yield per cord or unit from black spruce is much higher than the yield obtained from other species. In addition to the above reasons the wood is clear and comparatively free from resin or pitch and knots. WHITE SPRUCE-ls equally desirable as black spruce in the manufacture of pulp and paper and could ordinarily be treated in the same breath w ith black spruce. However, white spruce has other uses and characteristics worthy of mention. This tree is usually found in mixed stands and along creek bottoms or at the edge of the block spruce types where the drainage is good. On the best sites, white spruce reaches a size suitable for boom timbers, pilings and logs for lumber. In such uses it is in good demand and is usually produced in the varied products rather than for pulpwood. It does not occur in great volumes compared to the black spruce or jockpine. It reproduces fairly well by natural means and is a good tree to use in artificial regeneration. At present, along with balsam, white spruce is under attac by the spruce bud worm. BALSAM-is another species usually mentioned in the same breath with spruce. It occurs both in pure and mixed stands, in swamps and on higher wet ground. For many years balsam was considered almost a weed and mills would usually specify not more than 10 per cent along with spruce. However, in latter years it has been used in varying percentages with spruce, up to 50 per cent and more. The yield of pulp per unit is not as high with balsam as that of black spruce and its fibre is not as long nor as strong. However, balsam will become of increasing importance because of its regeneration habits. Balsam is undoubtedly the best of all district species in the matter of natural regeneration and many sites formerly occupied by other species are being taken over by balsam. It is not a long-lived tree and the rate of decay is very rapid with balsam after maturity. At the present time, balsam seems to be the most susceptible to the spruce bud worm and this infestation undoubtedly will make serious inroads into stands containing balsam. As a matter of fact, large volumes of balsam around Lake Nipigon are already beyond recovery. One other factor which is rather a serious one in the handling of balsam is its poor floating qualities if kept in water too long. JACKPINE-ls the district's best all-purpose tree, and certainly ranks in importance with the spruces. As a matter of fact, with its increasing use as pulpwood jackpine should soon become the foremost commercial species of Thunder Bay District. At the present time, in addition to its use as pulp(Continued on Page 12) �MARCH LOG BOOK 1949 PAGE 5 STEELCRAFT LOG-PUSHER (PATENTED) "A GREAT TEAM" STEELCRAFT TUGS& CUMMINS DIESELS For any. type of steel logging boat, barge or tug up to about 100' in length . . . for any type of diesel engine . . . power units ... generating sets .. . marine engines . . . automotive . . . pumping . . . compressor . . . crusher engines CALL PIET M. VOOGES ,. FOR SALES, "GENUINE" PARTS AND SERVICE FACILITIES RUSSEL-HIPWELL ENGINES .~ LIMITED RUSSEL BROTHERS LIMITED 235 BAY STREET, PORT ARTHUR, PHONE N. 1592 �PAGE 6 MARCH LOG BOOK Bruises and Contusions ............................ ........ Axe Cuts ..... ..... .. .. .................................... ....... ...... ... Sprains and Strains .......................................... Bone Fractures ................ ,..................................... Cuts, other than axe ........ ............................ Puncture Wounds ................................................ Burns ........................... ................................................ Infections ................. ...... ............ ...... ........................ Eye Injuries ................................ ........ :.......... Frost Bites .............................................................. Deaths .................. :.:....... ................ ...... .. ............ ....... Some Accident Statistics from the 1948 Annual Report, embracing what is known as the North-western District, being that portion in Ontario bounded on the east by the Algoma Central Railway, west to the Manitoba Boundary, and covering such industries as are now included in Class 1, 1949 366 223 215 163 124 99 15 l3 12 12 4 TOTAL ............. ... ........................ ........ .... 1,246 By A. R. WHITE Those of us who work with you in trying to . pre-• vent such oftentimes serious happenings must, of courser take a very serious view of the acts lead ing up to injury, as well as the damage remaining oftentimes as a permanent disability. This is a serious business, and -unfortunately the boss is not nearly as often to blame as the injured workman himself. Carelessness in a workman using 'sharp-edged tools. or falling heavy trees, if his mind is not on what is being done, or if he is without sufficient skill, oftentimes ends disastrously. There were five fatal injuries during the year. Perhaps if we study each briefly, there may be a lesson we can learn of great advantage. These are actual case histories but the names are fictional: l. Jimmy Jones was skidding logs in the woods and his brother was busy felling trees close by. Apparently there was no team work between the two boys, since the brother in felling a tree, had it fall in his brother's direction, accidentally, of course, or perhaps he did not Since the subject of accident prevention has been carried on continuously since 1935, when the Compensation Act came into force, and since it is thought to be of value that the workmen and the supervisory officers in the woods industries should know exactly what is happening from year to year, particularly since the success or the non-success of the movement depends on the enthusiastic support of us all, no matter what our position, who may be engaged in these industries, the following statistics may be worthy of some study: First of all, there were 1,246 compensable injuries during 1948. The great majority of these were just bruises and contusions. Second in point of number, as would be expected, were axe cuts; followed by strains and sprains, which again would not be unusual, since men in the wood are engaged in handling heavy objects, sometimes beyond their capacity. For greater particularity, an analysis of the injuries which occur, are repeated herewith: Construetion Maehinery FOR EVERY JOB LONDON CONCRETE MIXERS, PUMPS, HOISTS, BARROWS AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY No~lhland Machinery Supply Co. Ltd. FORT WILLIAM ONTARIO �MARC:-t LOG BOOK 1941 see his brother. At any rate, the tree fell and struck Jimmy on the head, killing him instantly. 2. George Brown was helping to move a homemade jammer; the jammer was being pushed by a bulldozer. Brown somehow got' in between the jammer and the bul Idozer, which because of lack of teamwork, moved forward, pinning the workman between the jammer and the dozer, so that he died of internal injuries. 3. William White was assistant superintendent; he had ·nothing to do with- the operation which was going forward, and was that of a bulldozer moving snow in the area around the camp. A piece of wood got stuck under the machine, he attempted , to remove this piece of wood without the knowledge of fhe driver; rnsuit, broken bock . .., , . 4. H. Jenkins _w!;ls a regularly constituted employee in a small sawmill. His job was to feed lumber into a ripsaw; he forgot to wear his heavy leather protective apron this morning, piece of timber flew back from the machine, striking him on the abdomen. A month later, • he died from internal injuries. a 5. Harry Smith was a one-man power saw operator on piecework. Winter had just commenced, the ice was not yet very strong, but if one was careful and stayed on the brushed roadway, he was safe. He did this coming back from his working place to the camp for two gallons of gas, but in returning from the camp to his work, he felt he could take a shortcut. This he did, stepped into a hole, fell through the ice, and was drowned. In repeating these injuries, any man used to woods work could tell at a glance how each of these fatal cases could have been prevented. They are, therefore, set out PAGE for your study and criticism. It is to be remembered that while we accident prevention people may be a source of annoyance to you at times, there is a serious side to the story we are trying to tell, and perhap it might be summed up in this fashion-that the end of all this preaching amounts to this. That the workman shall live to enjoy the fruits of his labour; that his children shall have a father; that his wife shall continue to have a husband; and that his mother shall have the strength of his good right arm in her old age; and that we shall try as hard as we can to convince the rest of the world, that cripples and helpless wrecks are not a by-product of our industry. "I ~hipk _that I shall never see, Aught lovely as a pulpwood tree A tree that grows through sunny noons, To furnish sporting page cartoons. A tr.ee whose girth will prove its age, . Is ample for a wont-ad page. A tree with grace toward heaven rising, Men macerate for advertising. A tree that lifts its arms and laughs, To be made into paragraphs, A tree that falls before the saw, A five-star final in the raw. In Canada there's a telephone for every five persons; in Russia, one for every 140. LIGHT .nly 35 to 37 lbs ,th lull fuel ta k. 4, .20 and .26' ~ • utter Bar len9ths. '"· ONE-MAN _POWER CHAIN SAW er is Available P.M. ELECTRO BOSS ONE-MAN POWER CHAIN SAW General Electric (series) Motor AC or DC, 1 l 0/220 volts. Weight 28 lbs, Write for Descriptive Folder coo Write or Wire for Demonstration of This _j Let our rep;esentative show you how each WOODBOSS can increase the production of each of your men. Single, cylinder, 2-cycle, air-cooled motor gives 4 H.P. (B.B.H.P. 2.5) for greater cutting efficiency. The improved clutch and automatic recoil starter speeds operation. Tested under all conditions, the WOODBOSS has 0roven efficient, dependable and economical.. CALL AT OR WRITE TO: 7 woc~~:~CJIJ compact/ SS is balanced~ built and at all an O Operate crowd d sles or • e areas. in ~ . Made in Canada - P.M. PRODUCTS (1947) LIMITED 278 Bay Street, Port Arthur, Ont. I r,~/~ I r' �Page 8:___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _~_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ LO_G_B_O_O_K_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _M_A_R_C_H__ l9_49 dent of the Patricia Area, were hosts to the visitors after · the tour and on behalf of all operators present, President H. H. Styffe, of the Thunder Bay Timber Operators' As- sociation thanked Mr. S. C. Stratton and Mr. J. A. Ryan and other O-M personnel for the very interesting day which had been enjoyed by all. Mr. Styffe spoke of the co-operation by the timber operators in North-wes.tern Ontario and benefits derived by persons who go on ! these trips to visit other companies' operat_ion. fhirty-Six Visit Ontario-Minnesota Pulp &Paper Company, Limited, Patricia Limits A very enjoyable and interesting visit was made to the O-M Patricia woods operations. The majority of the party travelled by train and detrained at Vermillion Bay where breakfast was served cafeteria style at the haul camp P-209. Mr. S. C. Stratton, vice-president and general manager. and Mr. J. A. Ryan, woods manager, headed the party of O-M personnel who welcomed and looked ofter the visitors during the day The O-M haul was in full swing and 85 trucks were in use on the Red Lake Road, trucking the wood both to the Canadian National Roi Iway and to the Canadian Pacific Railway Two tree length mechanical logging operations were visited. At both these operations Nesco slashers were in use and visitors saw a very ingenious method of pulling the tree length on to the slasher. Both warm air and steam heated camps were inspected, and, in particular, the steam heated camps caught the eyes of all visitors. An old tug boiler provided the steam for the camp. PATRONIZE OUR 'ADVERTISERS THEY MAKE THIS BOOKLET POSSIBLE TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION It is believed that an answer has been found to the problems of woods communication, obviating the usual choice of either a costly metallic circuit or the less efficient grounded I ine. Teleseal (sold by Whitney Blake Co. of New Haven, Conn.) can be laid on the ground. The insulation is equivalent to the pre-war 60 per cent submarine cable insulation. This is covered with a tougher neoprene jacket, which is highly resistant to weather, fibre, abrasion, etc. The trip ended up at "Camp Robinson," the headquarters camp for the Patricia Area and here the visit was continued through the bake and butcher shop which services nine camps in the Patricia Area; a work shop; the infirmary and a very modern, up-to-date school where the visitors had the pleasure of signing the Guest Book. O-M officials including Mr. Bill White, superinten- W. V. Barker & Company N 1580 PORT ARTHUR N 2688 * REPRESENTING: Canada's Leading Manufacturers of Industrial Equipment SERVING: Pulp and Paper, logging, Mining and Contractors of the Northwest WITH: SALES AND ENGINEERING SER VICES "THERE IS ALWAYS ONE WHO LEADS" �MARCH 1949 PAGE 9 LOG BOOK COCHRANE HARDWARE (PORT ARTHUR) LIMITED Headquarters for CAMPERS' - FISHING TACKLE - SPORTING GOODS LUMBERMEN'S MINING - CARPENTERS - AND HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES See the 1949 Johnson Outboard Motors at COCHRANE BARDW ARE (PORT ARTHUR) LIMITED S. CUMBERLAND ST. PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO_ PHONE 200 ONTARIO FOREST INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION HOLDS ITS ANN UAL MEETING dJ.M -Alt 'l/(Ul,11, p,,,uauu; Representatives of Ontario's forest industries have placed themselves on record as strongly advocating the fullest possible measure of protection for forest arears against the fire menace. At the annual meeting of the Ontario Forest Industries Association, January 24th, attended by seventy-five members, serious consideration was given to the recommendations of a brief prepared for presentation to the Minister of Lands and Forests, Hon. R. R. Scott, who attended the meeting together with the Deputy Minister, F. A. MacDougall, and other officials of the department. Long and careful study had been given the preparation of this brief by members of the Association who had had many years experence in the different phases of forest industry. It deals with the fire problem under three headings-Protection, Detection and Supression-and stresses the importance of education, travel control, weather forecasting, legislation and administration . Fol lowing are the officers elected for 1949: Re'Buvuunuiti OaJJ tlie. CONSOLIDATED PRESS SOUTH 1146 • President- W. E. Rowe, The Great Lakes Paper Company Ltd. Vice-presidents-M. Cochran, Hammermill Paper Company; K. 0. Roos, Booth Lumber Limited. Executive Council W. E. Rowe, K. 0. Roos, B. F. Merwin, D. A. Gillies, A.. E. H. Fair, B. F. Avery, C. B. Davis, H. A. Sewell, M. Cochran, H. S. Mosher. He was always a man to call a spade a spade, until he stumbled over one in the dark. The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went. • • We will be pleased to assist you in any manner we are able to. "BUSINESS FORMS ARE OUR SPECIALTY" "SWING-DINGLE" IN USE AT LONGLAC FOR LOADING A Wisconsin Moline double drum winch mounted on a Dodge 4 x 4 with a 29 foot steel boom has been used for loading 16-foot pulpwood from the strip-road to trucks. The Swing-Dingle was designed and named by Wilf Carlson and has proved to be very satisfactory. It is expected that members of the Operators' Association wi 11 have an opportunity to view this on the visit to the Long Lac Limits later on in the year. FORANO LIMITED MECHANICAL POWER TRANSMISSION AND MATERIAL V BELT DRIVES ROLLER CHAIM SPROCKETS PULLEYS ROLU:R CHAIM DRIVES CLUTCHES CONVEYOR CHAIN BELT CONVEYORS HANDLING EQUIPMENT GEARS SPEED Rf.:DUCERS HOISTS SAW MILL EQUIPMENT Represented By PHONE: North 740 Dial 5-8352 ROY GIBBON AGENCIES PORT ARTHUR 45A CUMBERLAND ST., S. �PAGE 10 LOG BOOK MARCH 1949· -Specializing InBAR IRON - HEAVY HARDWARE - e LOGGING AND MILL SUPPLIES o HARNESS AND e BUILDING PAPER AND ROOFING G MARLENE OILS AND GREASES 11 SHEET STEEL e • MARSHALL-WELLS PAINT AND 0n the spot service to all Leading lndustr:es ALL FINISHES ACCESSORIES 11 MARSHALL-WELLS Forestry News (Continued From Page 4) wood, it is a great source of ailway ties, piling and construction lumber. Jackpine is found on a variety of sites, the best of which are the rolling well-drained sandy ridges. It reproduces very well by natural regeneration and is also a good tree to plant by artificial means. It is not a particularly long-lived tree, reaching maturity at about 75 years. The rate of decay is fairly rapid after maturity. In comparison to spruce, the yield of pulp per cord is not as high nor does its fibre have the length of the spruce. There is also more resin and pitch in pine which presents more difficulties than spruce in the manufacture of paper. At present it is used primarily in the sulphate or kraft mills. However, it has been used in groundwood and sulphite mills and in the future we can expect a much greater use of jackpine in both the manufacture of newsprint and higher grade paper. NORWAY OR RED PINE-This species does not occur in great volumes in this district and at present is relatively unimportant. Most of the original stands have been cut and the present cut of Norway is limited to either second growth or isolated patches of the orig inal stands. Its uses were primarily for lumber and piling. It occurred often along with white pine on the higher sandy or rocky slopes. Norway pine is sti 11 an important species in the Sioux Lookout and Kenora Districts where reasonably good stands are sti 11 to be found. WHITE PINE-At one time White Pine was of ccnsiderable importance to Thunder Bay District and in particular along the Pigeon River Watershed, up to and along the old P. D. Railway. At present, its c.::mmercial importance is limited and similar to Norway, the present cuts are small in size in either second growth or isolated patches of the original stands. It has reproduced .itself in an indifferent sort of way. Most of its old habitat .have been taken over by poplar, birch, jackpine and spruce. It would be a good tree to plant wherever the sites are found to be suitable. In areas west of Thunder Bay District, there are sti 11 some fair stands of white pine. Its use, of course, is primarily for lumber. The best remaining stands are in the Quetico Park Reserve. TAMARACK-At the present time this species is of no commercial importance. Years ago there were great stands of tamarack in this area which were all completely killed off by the Larch Sawfly. It is gratify;ng to see this tree making a comeback in many different places in the district. NORTHERN WHITE CEDAR-This species has limited importance in the district. It is found in swamps and in damp ravines. It does not reach its best form in. this district although there are isolated locations where it has reached a tai r size. Its uses so far have beenprimarily for posts and poles. BIRCH-Northern White Birch has a great range throughout the entire district and occurs in pure and mixed stands. It is predicted that the use of birch wi 11 become more pronounced in the future. It is already finding considerable use with kraft mills and to a limited degree with the sulphite mills in the manufacture of higher grade papers. It is not a long-lived tree and matures at an average age of about 70 years. Rot is quite rapid after maturity. It occurs on a variety of sites but seems to do best on well-drained, moist flats. For years its primary use was for fuelwood, however, of latter years it has been used for dimens:on stock lumber, ties, pulpwood, and railway sh i ms. As pulpwood it compares favourably or better than poplar. Its disadvantages are the the difficulty in peeling, early rot in stockpile and poor floating qualities. It reproduces very well in its natural state and should be a much more important tree in the future . POPLAR-Years ago poplar was considered a weed tree and was not even desired as fi rewocd. Latterly, poplar has become an important pulpwood species and is used by all types of mills in the district. It has a wide range throughout the distr:ct and is found either in pure stands or in mixed stands, along with birch. It is a short-lived tree, probably averaging not more than 65 at maturity. The rate of decay after maturity is quite rapid and s: mi lar to that of b: rch. Both the poplar and birch have so-cal led short, soft fibres which do not lend much to the strength of a paper sheet. However, their qualities are ideal where a cheap fi Iler is required. While poplar has been logged in the rough for pulpwood, it is ordinarily taken in only in the peeled state. It is a particularly easy species to peel during the sap season. Rapid advancements have been made in the chemical treatment of trees and it is hoped that one day both poplar and birch will be logged completely in the rough after chemical treatment. The bark will then be removed by chemical action. A great deal of research has been done by Mr. Alex White of the Lumberman's Safety Association. That. subject could well be the basis for further articles in this publication, BALM OF GILEAD-Relatively unimportant in the district. This tree has been used as pulpwood in the peeled state, but due to its weight and high water con- �MARCH 1949 LOG BOOK tent has not proven very desirable. It occurs in limited volumes and is usually found in wet creek bottoms at the edge of poplar types. Commonly called "cottonwood" or "piss" poplar. The latter name arising from the fact that a great deal of water oozes out after balm is first cut. BLACK ASH-This species too, occurs in such limited quantities that it deserves only mention. In small volumes, it has been logged and sawn into dimension .stock for sleigh bunks, and in some cases, flooring. Oc,curs on wet, moist sites, and often along with Balm of -Gilead. * * * Advertisers' News S. J. Hill and Sons Limited have opened a new sales and service garage on North May Street, Fort Wi 1liam, Ontario. Personnel of the new garage are as follows: Mr. S. Korpela, Secretary-Treasurer and Manager; Mr. W. J. (Bill) Williams, Sales Representative; Mr. J. W . Cross, Sales Representative; Mr. P. Waluk, Service Manager; Mr. Paul Beischer, Parts Manager . The Port Arthur S. J. Hill and Sons Limited are continuing with the same service facilities as in the past. * LOG PUSHER In all too brief a manner, the commercial species -of the district have been covered in this article. Little space is left for concluding or for theorizing. However, it might be observed from the information given that -our stands of the future are going to be predominently made up of jackpine, poplar and birch. With the heavy -annual cuts of spruce and comparatively light cuts ot jack.pine, poplar and birch, a challenge can be laid with the milling end of the industry to so develop their chemical and mechanical processes that greater utilization be made of the latter named species. Kraft mills, of course, -are already making use of all species. It rests with the .newsprint and sulphite mills to do the same. In that direction lies a good part of the solution towards maintaining a supply of pulpwood for all in perpetuity. Russel Bros., Owen Sound, Ont., announce a new small boat designed to push logs for sluicing or in mill ponds. It is 17' x 8' and powered with l 00 R.P. Cummins Diesel Engine. It has a rake-like bulldoze attachment which can be lowered into the water in front of its bow. • FORESTRY B. F. Avery, Vice-President and General Manager, KVP, at a recent C.S.F.E. meeting said, in part: "Until it is the business of the man with the axe and the saw to grow trees as well as cut them, we will not make the progress we should in forestry." THE NORTHERN ENGINEERING & SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED FORT WILLIAM CANADA ONTARIO MODEL HS 2000 1948 CANADIAN PATENT APPLIED FOR SLASHER AND LOADER Ensures - Economical, Speedy, Continuous Operation �PAGE 12 LOG ~ This Need Not Be ••• You ~an Delp Natural ~eg Employm For Employment . . . Wages ... Revenue for the People 1629 Fl RES-1948 IN ONTARIO WOODS 806 FIRES WERE DEFINITELY • . STARTED BY HUMA ' 403 FIRES WERE ATTRIBUTED TO RAILROADS, 0 , It's up to You and TO ;BE 1 ◄ PREVENT F �Page 13 ,ration ... lt and Prosperity 11ture Generations -MOST CASES CARELESSNESS 7 • TIONS, ETC.-THE RESPONSIBILITY OF HUMANS and Yon - and Me REFUL 11 lEST FIRES Pictures by Courtesty of INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO. OF CANADA �LOG BOOK Page 14 By H. H. "HOLLY" PARSONS B.Sc.F. Aerial Timber Mapping or Aerial Sketching as it is commonly referred to, provides to the operator or concessionaire a specialized form of forest inventory work; by virtue of the fact that the work is done by hand from an altitude of not under 3,000 feet, with 3,500 to 4,000 feet constituting the accepted elevation. A short description, to commence with, of the procedure, aims and objectives of this qualitative analys:s of forest cover, might prove of interest, particularly to the uniniti9ted. Primarily, good ground control is of paramount importance. A base map is prepared of the area to be examined, prior to the commencement of any field work. On this map, lakes, rivers, trails, roads, township lines, and any other permanent or semi-permanent topographic features are incorporated and not only accelerate the field work but curtail the flying hours with corresponding less expense to those requesting the service. On large tracts within the Rainy River and Thunder Bay Districts, over twenty years ago, many hours were spent locating lakes_and rivers before any timber typing was even commenced. Also it was necessary to frequently erase everything and start again from scratch as there was either too much base map or too little to accomodate all the waterways represented. Due to intensive photographic programs, in the interim, and the fact that the entire province will soon be completed; areas of inadequate ground control are becom:ng scarce. With the required base map at scales of l mile, ½ mi"le to the inch or 4 inches to the mile the area is then flown and detailed. The final results resolve themselves into a linen tracing, a report and a colored forest map. On the type map, age classes are delimited by species, in the form of mature growth, second growth and immature growth. Sawtimber is segregated from pulpwood, merchantable and potential from unmerchantable. A descriptive legend is contained within each type boundary analysing the quality and waste areas are mapped in and classified. The resulting ground sampling is curtailed to a minimum, as a few strips or plots only in the representative types indicated, are sufficient to pr0vide the basis for a reasonably accurate estimate. Any pe>pularity accorded this form of type mapping, can be attributed to: l. Speed of operation-Areas THE TIMBER 64% 36% Bases Utilized -Su_d_b_u-ry_________ Queb_e_c_ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ T emagami Fort Albany-James Bay Cochrane Moose River Crossing Hearst Timmins Biscotasing Gore Bay North Bay Ranger Lake (Mississagi) Michipicoten Island Wawa A.C . Rlwy. Thessalon Chapleau A. J. AUDEN TO ADDRESS TIMBER CULLERS' ANNUAL MEETING APRIL 18 AT PORT ARTHUR Plans have been completed for the annual meeting of the Timber Cullers' Association of the Thunder Bay District. The meeting will be held at the Port Arthur Legion Hall, Cook Street, Port Arthur, and the business session will in all probability commence at l :00 p.m. and the banquet at 7 p.m. the same evening. OPERATORS OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO" W H O L E .S A L E-LUMBERMEN'S CLOTHING, BEDDING AND FOOTWEAR. GROCERIES, -Fort William FRUITS 194_9 equivalent to three or four six mile townships, can be completed in one day, under favourable weather conditions; and under duress, ground parties can be supplied with final type maps in two to three days following completion of field work. 2. Inexpensive operation. 3. Accuracy of results-the crown colour distinctions add appreciably to the detail obtained and denote not only stand compositions and age classes but a ]d materially in quality classification. The 1948 flying season commenced March 9th and was discontinued March 22 due to adverse conditions for ski-equipped aircraft. Some time was flown during the latter part of April in a Grumaan Goose (amphibian) when landings and take-offs were unfavourable to either floats or skiis. The spring flying commenced May 23rd and was completed November 7th. All programs, barring one in northern Quebec, were confined to Ontario. Due to the courtesy of one operator, sketching services were released, to map in and delimit burn intensities and logging chances for salvage, on the Mississagi and Chapleau fire areas, for the Department of Lands and Forests. Due also to the speed required in ground checking and organization of salvage operators, the work was commenced June 29th, and the final results, with coloured maps and reports, submitted on August 15th. Approximately 125 hours were utilized in the detailed examination of these areas. The following table summarizes the season's activities. Total Total No. of Total acres detailed Hours Programs and percentage Flown Completed distribution lnd-u-st_r_y--Gov't . • Industry Gov't. ---397.45 ·11 2 -1,958,400-f;ff8)20 Aerial Timber Sketching--1948 A Normal Season's Operations "S~RVING MARCH & VEGETABLES, TOBACCO, ETC. �MARCH 1949 PAGE 15 LOG BOOK '· This unit owned and operated by Canadian International Paper Company (Opawica Division>. Modern logging Has Created a Heavy Demand for EUCLIDS Tractor and trailer shown used to haul 20 cord loads of 12' pulpwood 15 miles at AVERAGE loaded speed of 20 M.P.H. Whatever off-the-highway haul:ng there is to be done, there's a specially designed EUCLID to d,:, it. Enqu:re today about the EUCLIDS line. TRACTOR TRAILER - 190 H.P. Diesel Engine, speeds - 2 M.P.H. to 27 M.P.H., Weight - 19,600 lbs. Length - 41', Capacity Pulpwood 20 ~ords, Weight - no load - 16,000 lbs. "EUCLID'' pulling 60 cords of green jackpine at Kowkash, Ont. OWNER: Nipigon Lake Timber Co., Ltd.-Operator E. Sobush FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, WRIT£ PHONE OR WIRE G.·H.·GODSALL EQUIPMENT CO. LTD. TORONTO. 213 BAY STREET PORT ARTHUR, TEL N. 1786 MONTREAL PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO �MARCH LOG BOOK PAGE 16 1949 " LE ADERS HI P -- To Le ad and To Be Le ad '' Concluding part of an address by C. H. King to the supervisory staff of the Ontario Minnesota Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. HOW TO BE A GOOD LEADER (l) Number one, and most important of all, you must first recognize and be convinced, that "PEOPLE ARE IMPORTANT' 1 and deal with "EACH" MAN" as an "INDIVIDUAL" . . . "THIS IS BASIC" . . . You WIN OVER or LOSE your employees' LOYALTY, CO-OPERATION, and SUPPORT, one at a time, as individuals. This is why it takes time and persistence to become a good leader. Everyone of your employees expects your personal attention, and has every right to expect it. . . How you give it, that is your problem. . . But, know your people and know them wel I. (2) It is also important that you know your job and know you rse If. (3) I recommend that you train your men. . . develop them . . . condition them mentally, morally, physically, and skillfully. . . See that they possess the best possible "KNOW-HOW" and "SKILL" of their job . . . Show them how to cut two sticks of pulpwood, where they cut only one before, and do the job with as little waste of human energy as possible . . . See that they understand how their jobs fit together with other jobs around them, and in the Company. . . See that they have a sense of job responsibility . . . Show them the satisfaction of a job well done . . . Convey to them your enthusiasm . . . Get them to see the importance of their particular job . . . and give them a chance to learn the easy way, instead of the hard "I double dare you to find out" way. This job of training your men is one that is NEVER done, and one which you cannot afford to neglect . . . You now have Mr. Milton, who is assigned to help you and show you some of the methods and techniques of training and developing your people. . . Some of you have already been working with him, the rest of you wilt be very shortly. Whether you apply the basic principles of training which Mr. Milton is now going over with you . . . or whether you beat your head against "THE PROBLEM OF UNTRAINED, OR HALF-TRAINED HELP", rests with you . . . You will find the results gratifying it the plan is properly and promptly applied. (4) To be a good leader, you must keep yourself human, as an individual and a supervisor. . . Don't become so wrapped up in your own problems and ambitions, that you lose touch with the men on your working force . . . Don't put on a front when you're not sure of yourself . . . and above all, don't get a swell head . Keep an open mind . . . The other fellow has a fifty-fifty chance of being right, the same as you. (5) (6) Don't expect you men to perform mi rodes. . . that responsibi I ity should be yours. (7) Plan and talk over your plans with your men . . . They may give you some good ideas . . . They ma)1 YARDERS SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR PULPWOOD LOGGING AND SALVAGE OPERATIONS Gasoline or Diesel Powered LIGHT WEIGHT-HIGH SPEED-FLEXIBLE EQUIPMENT AUTOMATIC SPEED CONTROL-320 TO 1400 RPM LINE SPEED "GET MORE FROM YOUR WOODS WITH A LIDGERWOOD" Write for Full Information -TIMBER PRODUCERS EQUIPMENT PHONE RADISSON 2723 509 LYCEUM BLDG. DELBERT L. LAFLEUR NORTHERN ENGINEERING AND SUPPLY CO,, LTD. FORT WILLIAM, ONT. Have ye~, investigated the features incorporated in the new NESCO GRAPPLE? �MARCH 194? LOG BOOK Page 17 J. T. Russell Motors 120 N. ARCHIBALD STREET FORT WILLIAM, _ONTARIO Distributors for GENUINE CHRYSLER ENGINEERED PARTS For CHRYSLER INDUSTRIAL-MARINE AND AUTOMOTIVE ENGINES ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION MAIL OR PHONE PHONES. 517 I even show you where you are wrong. (8) Interpret Company policies, regulations, and reports to your people, and be firm and fair in seeing to it · that they are lived up to. (9) Get out among your men on the job under al I types of conditions, as frequently as possible, but regularly. ( l 0) Be courteous, patient, reasonable, sympathetic, and above all, be cheerful ( 11) Set the example as a leader, which you want your men to follow. ( 12) Deal with all employees impartially. ( 13) Handle any grievance as promptly as possible. ( 14) Give credit or praise when due, and no more . Don't over do it. . . you may blow up an employee, or show up your own insincerity ( 15) Criticise oniy constructively. . . and th~n only to the employee in person, and in private. (1 6) Go to bat for your men when justified. ( 17) Provide the best working foci I ities, equipment, <md working conditions possible, and see that they take care of it, and use them righ-i• ( 18) Don't pass the buck. . . admit your mistakes like a man. • ( 19) Show faith and confidence, well placed, in your men. (20) Be loyal, and uphold all Company and management policies, and decisions . . . Remember you are on the management's team. . . We could go on enumerating many more things you should do "AS A LEADER" to get your employees to follow you in respect and confidence. As leaders, you have first the job of building your "MAN ORGANIZATION", before the Company's work can be done . . . . In planning "THIS ORGANIZATION", you must have collaboration. . . . There must be team work and team play. . . ·But just remember this . . . "Teams are made up of indi · vidual people . . . and people are important. . . You must deal with each as an individual. . . and not until you build individual interest, individual initative, individual devotion, and individual enthusiasm in each man, can you ever hope to weld them into a smooth functioning team, behind your leadership as a foreman or super'visor. . . IF YOU AS SUPERVISORS, PUT EACH MAN STRAIGHT, YOU WILL HAVE PUT YOUR JOB STRAIGHT TOO Let me tell you this short story and I'm through. It seemed that a woods supervisor was trying to read the evening paper, but wasn't having much success because of the many interruptions and distractions of his son, Bill. . . With a large map of the world in the paper before him, he suddenly tore it from the paper with an idea for keeping Bill busy, at least until he had finished looking over the paper . . . "Here Bill' he said, "is a map of the world. I'm going to tear' it into bits and I'll give you a dime if you can put it back together." Bill pursued the_ task . . . T~e father resumed his reading . . . In no time at all Bill had it back together. · . . The father was amazed and astounded at the boy's apparent intelligence and speed in doing the job . . . He said, "Son, I don't know how you got it together so fast. . . How did you do it?" Bill explained,that he had noticed a large picture of a man on the back of the page before his father had torn it up, and he knew if he got the man straight, he'd have the world straight. if you, as foremen and supervisors, GET THE MAN STRAIGHT, YOU WILL GET YOUR JOB STRAIGHT, AND YOUR COMPANY STRAIGHT TOO. In the January issue of the Log Book an article was printed which was incomplete. So that there will be no misunderstanding, the article is reprinted below with the Ontario figures included to make the statistics complete. Canada Quebec Ontario B.C. Other Prnv. 115 50 45 8 12 Pulp Mills 29 11 8 4 6 Pulp and Paper Mills 59 32 18 3 6 Paper Mills 27 7 19 49,946 23,685 16,927 4,426 4,918 Est ab I ishments Total Employees Sal. & Wages $129,477,995 $60,623,167 $44,235,111 $12,414,932 $12,204,785 FIRST ANNUAL WOODLANDS DIVISION MEETING-MARATHON WOODS The Woodlands Division plans to hold its first annual meeting at · Camp l 02, Stevens, from March 7th to March 21st, inclusive. About sixty will be in attendance, with every department participating. It is hoped that every phase of activity planned for the operating year 1949-50 will be gone over for the benefit of all, so that each person in attendance will have a clearer picture of where each staff member and each department fit into the over-all picture. Special courses are planned in first aid, aerial photography, logging procedure, map requirements and timber estimates, mechanical equipment and methods, clerical procedure and organization and inter-departmental relationships, plus a number of other significant matters.-"Feb. Marathon Courier." �PAGE 18 LOG BOOK SOME 1948 FOREST MARCH FIRE 1949 STATISTICS CENTRAL ~REGION NORTHERN Chapleau Gogama ' North Sault Ste. Sudbury Total Bay Marie Central No. No. No. No. No. Region REGION Cochrane Kapus- Temis- Total kasing kaming Northern No. No. No. Region FIRES BY MONTH r ,:• ,. ~ ,. April .................................................. . (J 3 19 -2 May ............~ ............................... ~ ........ . 4 2 )une ........ -: .......................................... . 7 J~ly .................................................... .. 12 12 7 36 37 12 August ............. .................................. . 4 5 1l September ......................... :............ . 17 5 49 October ............................ ................ . 2 1 i6 60 .. 43 57 15 42 19 November 0 0 51 30 TOTAL 181 .45 59 58 52 21 82 10 0 0 238 327 l9"• 161 157 140 56 195 48 5 3 1i 13 18 18 8 5 28· 28 13 52 64 14 2 4 12 4 6 22 5 4 12 21 0 0 0 0 60 48 82 190 60 9 3 99 13 6 14 19 176 254 2 12 3 26 38 17 4 3 8 827 FIRES BY ORIGIN 0 34 40 Settlers ............................................. 0 -Campers .......................................... 3 Railway ............................................ 5 ' 4 1l Lightning .......................................... 41 12 35 15 62 105 0 3 2 Rood Construction ................ . 5 21 40 94 61 4 1 2 169 21 8 34 6 6 li 3 63 20 7 I Smokers ........................................... 0 8 45 39 Logging Operations ................. 0 2 2 l Mining Operations ..................... 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 Prospectors ..................... .............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Incendiary ................. ................... 1 0 0 2 9 12 7 0 1 8 Miscellaneous ............................. 0 1 ll 4 22 38 0 0 3. 3 Unknown ................ .......................... 0 0 0 2 3 0 2 TOTAL ...................... ................ 51 30 181 238 827 60 48 77 327 ' 3 82 190 (AREA BURNED-ACRES) 151825.08 29279.7 4 2636.25 588271.13 21150.84 793163.04 3878.25 611 o.84 3436-50 13425-59 MEANS OF DETECTION lP~nger ................................................ Tower ........................ ................... .. Air Patrol ................ ......................... Public ............... .............................. . TOTAL ......................... .... .......... In Comparison 7 11 31 59 27 64 55 77 30 181 3 0 35 12 7 6 51 TOTAL OF 1947 FIRES ...... 46 Area Burned 1947 (Acres) .. 5717.6 17 89 38 123 30 136 89 284 148 306 238 327 827 58 i 46 185 170 530. l 7164.2 29309 .6 6291.5 605 49013.0 13- 4 28 10 19 3.5 21.5 23 32 84 19.5 54.5 60 48 82 190 9 15 37 7 164 34 New 198 4821 15003.47 District 19824.47 �LOG BOOK 1949 MARCH SOME 1948 FOREST MID WESTERN Port Geraldton Arthur No. No. PAGE 19 FIRE STATISTICS WESTERN REGION • REGION Total MidWestern Region Kenora No. Fort Frances No. Sioux Western Lookout Region No. Total Total of 4 vi • Regions] FIRES BY MONTH .................................................. . l l 2 0 0 0 0 May ............... ................... ....... .......... .. . 30 15 17 7 99 51 19 30 36 July . ..... '................................. ............... . 69 34 12 _8 13 44 49 31 89 94 52 August ............................................... . 2 5 7 2 3 2 7 September ........... . 4 0 4 l l 2 i3 46 51 5 16 26 31 77 98 November 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 133 62 195 173 6i 183 417 1629 4 April June .. ............................... .................... . October ............................................. 9 84 401 366 225 74 298 180 FIRES BY ORIGIN 12 77 8 15 61 21 12 19 33 41 26 5 4 6 24 i53 15 34 17 50 l Ol 129 323 249 389 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ll 39 14 17 13 62 ll 53 18 32 -, 0 0 5 5 347 49 3 7 Settlers i9 0 Campers .............................. .. ......... 6 Lightning ......................................... . 27 20 14 Road Construction ............... .. . Smokers ............................................ . Railway ....................... ........ ............ . Logging Operations ................. . I ,y\ining Operations ................... . 1 0 l 2 0 Prospectors .......... ........................ . 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 Incendiary ...................................... . 0 0 0 5 0 10 15 Miscellaneous ........ ..................... . 2 2 4 6 0 l 7 Unk"}OWn ......................................... . 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 35 52 36 195 173 61 183 417 1629 133 TOTAL 62 ,, (AREA BURNED-ACRES) 44379 17449 61828 8078. 12809 107033 127920 996336.63 MEANS OF DETECTION .............................................. . 31 19 5 7 Air Patrol ........................................ . 22 Public 61 20 30 36 26 42 91 133 62 195 133 6234 31 4461 164 10695 Ranger ....... ......................................... Tower ............... ................................ . TOTAL .................................... .. 14 . 23 69 67 12 13 16 20 173 61 45 539.2? 34 26.68 15.5 41.5 14 95 58.5 50 180 145.5 183 198.5 444 389.5 597 1629 In Comparison 1947 Burned 1947 TOTA_L OF FIRES ... .".. Area (Acres) ... 108 2233.8 187 2799.76 1154 82332.23 �MARCH LOG BOOK PAGE 20 REPRESENTATIVES OF CITIZENS' ORGANIZATIONS INTERESTED IN THE FORESTS ADDRESSED BY GORDON GODWIN Mr. Gordon Godwin, Woodlands Manager of the Ontario Paper Company, Limited, Ontario Di-vision, vice-president and chairman of the executive board to the Canadian Forestry Association told representatives of various civic bodies about the Canadi(an Forestry Association and suggested that a branch be formed in North-western Ontario. Mr. Godwin stated that: "The Canadian Forestry Association, now in its 49th year, was founded in 1899, and its first president was Sir Wilfred Laurier. Its present membership is 25,000," he said, "includng 5,000 in Ontario. "The purpose of the association is to function across the Dominion as an independent organization of Canadian citizens providing education and publicity on torestry and conservation affairs." Editor's Note: The Canadian Forestry Association publish~s two excellent publications; a monthly magazine "The Forest and Outdoors:' and a monthly tabloid paper "Woodland World." Anyone interested in the forests would be well advised to subscribe to these publications and your subscription will include membership in the Canadian Forestry Association. SUPPORT THIS CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION! In a recent bulletin of the Timber Cullers' Association all scalers are reminded to renew their Scaler's Licenses by March 31st, 1949. Railway Car Situation Hampers Wood Operation Whiles there may have been an over-all sufficient supply of railway cars and gondolas to service companies in getting their wood to terminal points, every com- r pony at one time or another experienced serious delays in loading cars on sidings at the loading points. The first result of no cars arriving at a siding to be loaded, is that there is no work for the err)ployees and as the majority of them work on a contract basis this is no help to either their pocket books or their tempers. The next is that wood coming in from the bush starts to pile up and increases the cost of handling it. At the unloading point, similar situations are experienced in so far as the employer is concerned and in so far as the cost is concerned. At times, it is known that two or three days loading will a·rrive at the unloading point and there will be some delay in getting these cars unloaded. It is practically impossible to predetermine when or how many cars will arrive. One woods employer stated "It is impossible to co-ordinate a woods operation to the supply of railway cars." This rail car supply should be given a thorough study on the basis of this year's operations to ensure that next year the rail movement of wood will operate more smoothly. Teacher: "How many kinds of wood are there used in making a match?" Student: "Two kinds, he would and she would." GENERAL MOTORS c~~EDfESEL ENGINES • 50 H.P. TO 600 H.P. PACKAGE POWER 55 H.P. TO 660 H.P. FINGER TIP SHIFT CONTROL IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE G.M. HYDRAULIC MARINE GEAR, STANDARD WITH ALL 3, 4, 6, AND TWIN G.M. UNITS UNITS OR FAN TO FLYWHEEL UNITS FOR ALL YOUR POWER REQUIREMENTS ''..2>i-elel Bl/4W,H, 'kldluud llt.e BulJa. 11 IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ... SALES - PARTS - SERVICE PIGOTT TRACTOR & E·QUIPMENT LTD. ALLIS CHALMERS TRACTORS ..... GENERAL MOTORS DIESEL ENGINES. 906 Memor:al Ave. 1949 Port Arthur Phone North 120 �MARCH 1949 PAGE 21 LOG BOOK AStudy of Woods Operations In Scandinavian Countries By K. McALLEN The Great Lakes Lumber and Shipping Limited is convinced that the timber resources of our province have not as yet been properly utilized to return maximum value to the people of Ontario. So, iast April the writer with M. 0. Lehtinen travelled to Norway, Sweden and Finland to see how these people were using their forests. Later in the year, a delegation of employees and union officials visited these same countries to study in particular, labour's contribution. Scandinavian forests have provided a livelihood for centuries. Today 80 per cent of Finland's land area remains covered with timber. In fact, the wooded area of all these countries stand as monuments to utilization on a perpetual yield basis. Profitable use is made of everything that grows, and it is significant to notice a sawmill manager or the youngest workman pick up a smal I board that may have fallen here or there and put it where it belongs. Their forests contain softwoods, mostly plne (Pinus Sylvestris) and spruce (Picea excelsa) and hardwoods, mostly birch (betula bubestsens). In Sweden, approximately a third is owned by private interests, a third by communities and a third by the state. These areas are maintained by trained foresters and cutting regulations are rigorously enforced by government agencies whether on public or private lands. Only trees marked for cutting can be used. In one integral operation each tree is made to yield that for which it is best suited. These people find it more profitable to produce sawlogs first and utilize the remainder of the cut as pulpwood firewood, etc. Sawlogs are cut odd and even lengths :x. 1S' 4", as wel I as 14' 4" or 16' 4" and would average a little better than an 8" or about 25 logs to the thousand board feet mill scale. Pulpwood is cut to 3" top and as short as 3 ft. The primary product from birch is veneer logs. No slash is left on the ground. In Finland, we visited the operations of three large companies, while in Sweden our principal host was the Swedish Cellulose Company. All companies within their own organization combined the milling of lumber with that of pulp and paper as primary products and went on to use their waste material in various ways in a well rounded out plan which seemed to depend upon their immediate locality, wood species and outlets. Sawmill slabs were chipped to supply or augment supply of wood used in sulphate or sulphite plants. Or chips were defibrated to produce wallboard. To green sawdust was added a small percentage of defibrate to make super-porous wallboard. Dry sawdust plus resinous glues became core stock for veneer panels. From waste sulphate liquors they produced soap, or ye9st. Sulphite liquors were fermented and distilled to turn out alcohol which was refined to become the base of most of the beverages consumed in these countries. Dry trimmer ends are used to make cores for flush floors finished with high quality sliced veneers. Others use dry trimmer ends to produce beautiful end grain laminated flooring. Wood flour is another by-product. Box board factories use a large volume of small dimension. Joineries producing specialty windows and plants turning out prefabricated houses are in growing demand. Some even make paper bags from their own kraft paper. In many sawmills at home we see wide-toothed saws lashing out a flood of sawdust, and we have conie to accept variations in width and thickness of rough lumber. · Over there, much work has been done to make each saw cut as narrow as possible and to secure accurate dimensions whether sawing in winter or summer. To achieve maximum lumber recovery from each log, the Scandinavian sorts his logs to size and runs one size at a time through two high speed gang saws, the first producing a cant and some lumber, and the second sawing the cant into the required thickness. The~e gang saws permit no variation in dimension. Behind each poi r of gangs is an edger with hydraulic width control graduated in half inches. One hundred logs an hour averages about .4,000 board feet through one poi r of gangs and an edger. To a visitor all this seems very simple and he decides that after all it is just common sense put to work. For this, credit is due as much to Labour as to Capital. Organized labour understands how closely forest industries are tied up with the economic welfare of their country and so lends close and practical co-operation to employer groups, with the government acting as a stabilizing influence to both groups. In Sweden, all sawmill and wood workers belong to a local union. These unions are grouped into district councils which in turn comprise the Sawmill Trade Union Centre. The T.U.C. holds a policy setting congress every four years and functions through its elected committee. The sawmi 11 workers Federation operates within the framework laid down by the T.U.C. and once a year holds a conference to discuss the business outlook of their particular industry. They decide whether they will have to give or take and elect representatives to the •Other Forces Stimulate the Worlds Need For Pulp and Paper Add to all these forces some other strong influences which made themselves felt during this period: The dramatic growth of railroad transportation during the 19th century helped expand the American world and increase the need for communication and distribution. It was followed by the equally drama~=-: development and growth of the automotiv~ industry during the current century. The creation of a vast and reliable postal system which was expanded in 1914 to include the parcel post service was another important influence tending to increase the demand for paper. The postal service, which handled seven billion pieces of mail in 1900, handled more than 36 billion pieces in 1946, the most recent year for which official figures are avai Iable The spectacular rise of the modern chemical industry, with its development of synthetics, many of them needing cellulose in the form of highly refined chemical wood pulps, has been still another strong force. Rayon alone, achieving commercial production as "artificial silk" in 1900, was destined to open up a whole new market for wood pulp. ATTENTION CAMERA OWNERS The editor will welcome publication in the Log Book. Pictures showing new or using equipment or innovations practice will be welcomed Simply send a negative or returned after using. pictures suitable for • different methods ot or inventions put into a proof which will be �Page 22 MARCH LOG BOOK 1949 yearly wage conference with the Sawmill Employers' Association. This wage conference is attended from the start by government representatives as the third interested party. They do not wait unti I employer and employee groups are in deadlock. All three parties have studied selling prices and have a fair idea of production costs so that bargaining mainly is deciding how the profits will be shared. An employer need never fear when making a sales agreement that he'll be shoved against the wa:I by a future wage contract. We from Great Lakes Lumber returned with a critical eye directed towards our own operations. Those of us who doubted the economics in normal times of maintaining a sawmill industry on small timber have had those doubts dispelled by what we saw in Scandinavia. It is true that here we took the first major steps towards complete utilization when we started to produce pulpwood along with sawlogs and clean up poplar and birch in cut-over areas with portable mills. We made some progress in the elimination of waste at the sawmill by reducing kerf and assuring accurate size with gang saws, developing a shook division for small dimension stock, producing chips from green slabs for pulp makng, and by producing Pres-to-Log fuel from dry shavings, sawdust and trimmer ends in the planing mills. In 1938 before the sawmill in Fort William was even constructed, Mr. E. E. Johnson, president of this company, visited the Scandinavian countries to make an intensive study of the basic principles underlying timber supply and production methods as wel I as the economics of the timber industry as a whole. Further investigations were made by Mr. Johnson into the chemical utilization of wood and its by-products. He has travelled widely on the West Coast, both in Canada and the United States, among sawmills, pulp mills and plywood mills. He has carried his studies of the timber industry into the Southern States, even as far as Northern Mexico, and has closely followed developments in the Northern and _';:astern States as well. The recent trips to the Scandinavian countries by members of this company represent one further step taken by Mr. Johnson to achieve here at the Lake head the utmost in uti Ii zation of wood products. Further plans will be put into effect as soon as it is possible to do so in the light of timber supply, financing and economic conditions generally. The forest resources of Northern Ontario are very similar in species and size to those of Scandinavia. Annual growth limits the volume of raw material available. We, like they, must learn that nothing that grows can he wasted. In mills and factories, the highest quality of manufactured products must be achieved to obtain maximum realization from raw materials. Pulpmills must of necessity work with sawmills to obtain the fullest possible utilization. There is no reason why the basic principles proven in Scandinavian countries cannot be applied here in Canada, so that forest areas can be made to support a well diversified group of industries. This, with sound forestry practices, will, here as there, maintain the forests of our province in perpetuity. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS _ WHO M1AKE THIS BOOK POS.SIBLE ONE TREE CAN MAKE A MILLION MATCHES, ONE MATCH CAN DESTROY A MILLION TREES! Men of the Woodlands Join Abitibi Quarter Century Cluh The January issue of the "Abitibi" pays to men and women who have been with the Power & Paper Company Limited for 25 years. President, D. W. Ambridge, stated in a message: "The members of the Quarter Century Club are a very important group of men and women in the company. In this group resides a great deal of the knowledge, experience and know-how wr- ·} h makes the wheels go round. In this group we find the men and women who by spending their lives with the company have earned the right to a special distinction. "With this special distinction goes the equally special responsibility and duty of guiding and teaching the young men and women whose future well-being an happiness will so largely depend on the success of OU great company." From the woods departments the following sons received suitably inscribed gold watches: Toronto Office-C. B. Davis, W. Kihbaugh; Por Arthur Division-A. J. Auden, J. C. McLeod. F. Bere ziuk; Sault Ste. Marie Division-D. J. Munro, J. W Alexander, R. A. Brown, R. A. Kenshol, T. J. Leclair · Iroquois Falls Division-T. H. Stone, G. D. Adams, T , J. Daplante, J. A. Cote, P. Clouthier, R. D. Fraser, T. D Gibbens, H. Leblanc, G. W. Poufore, J. A. Theriaul Beaupre Division-C. R. Harris. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED BY THE CONSOLIDATED PRESS 137 s. MAY ST., FORT WILLIAM, ONT. These days it's easier to find a better good quarters. �MARCH Page 23 LOG BOOK 1949 STRAPPING WOOD Operators Visit Ontario Paper Company Limits Members of the Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association ·visited the operations at Hem lo, of the Ontario Paper Company, Limited, the main purpose to view the strip-loader designed by Ted Summers. These striploaders were in use at three camps and almost entirely eliminated the use of horses in transferring the wood at the transferring points. The strip-loader is essentially o sled that lifts a pile of wood onto itself by means of a small live boom that is powered by a tractor winch. This loader is presently used on four foot pulpwood, but with a slight change in design can be made to load eight foot wood. The use of the strip-loader elimingtes all the "bullwork" and the handling of the wood and in addition ensures that there are no sticks left frozen in under the snow. Besides observing the strip-loader in action, the party saw in action a cable hitch which was designed by Ted Summers and a plan of which is illustrated elsewhere in this booklet. A sectional insulated H-type camp, housing 64 men (two to a cubical) was inspected. The building at Camp 41 had been moved four times and the last two times the flooring was left. It is not economical to tear up the flooring once laid down. A "Quonset" type of garage which was just completed at Heron Bay was also interesting to the party. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Turner entertained the group at their home before they entrained for the Lakehead. The Northern Paper Mill~ Limited have been experimenting on a small scale, mainly testing the strength of the straps and the handling of the bunches. Up to a cord of green eight foot wood has been handled and dropped from a height of eight feet and the straps have been strong enough to stand the jolt. The wood to be strapped must be pi led or deposited in a semi-circular cradle prior to the placing of the ;traps. It is impossible to draw the wood into a circular bunch by the strops alone. When attempting to strap a bunch irregular in form, it is found that as the bundle is rehandled and altered in shape the result is slackness in the straps, which permits spilling of the wood. As the experiments progress further, reports will be made through this booklet. SPORTS The Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited and the Long Lac Pulp & Paper Company, Limited both sponsor hockey teams and hockey is played in their localities. The ancient sport of curling seems to be taking a great hold in the woods areas. The Long Lac Pulp & Paper Company, Limited have a curling club organized and a club has recently been formed at Beardmore. The Ontario Paper Company, Limited at Heron Bay uses an old sectional building and had one sheet of ice available whiGb has given the sport an- excellent start at Heror Bay. Perhaps a bonspiel can be arranged to declare the champion of the woods areas. INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS FOR PROVED HEAVY-DUTY PERFOR)'tJAN CE International T r u c ks are famous ly for their rugged construction, economical per- formance-and low main- tenance cost. There's a model for every purpose, with strong emphasis on off - the - highway operation as well as long distance hauling. er- 1 or · ire-• w air • ,T .D ul l_ _ Se~ us for all Types of l DOMINION TRAJLERS Built for Every Special Purpose _____,. S. J. -HILL & SONS -LTD.-r International Truck Sales and Service PORT ARTHUR • FORT WILLIAM �REMOVES SNOW From stump to finished paper product your "Cat- erpillar" T rector can do more for you! . Write for complete details on the "Traxc( vator," the "Trackson Tree-dozer" and the "Trackson Brus h Rake." ide your jobs by two with a 7DAYLOAN .PJJWEll E(tUl·P ME~'f' t~OMP~N~ LIMITED 115 N. CUMBERLAND ST. I ~. • PORT ARTHUR,. ON � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Log Book - Timber Operators' Association Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1949MarLogBook Title A name given to the resource Log Book - March 1949 Subject The topic of the resource Forest Products Industry Description An account of the resource Log Book, published by the Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association. March 1949. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared with permission of the Ontario Forest Industries Association Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/6e11ffae1c27aa65248e6fb15b6ab491.pdf 11139b775e8028a965d88be82e20f65f PDF Text Text REGIQ'\JAL ,~I otJ ·NF1 RETU R f'J TO FORESTPt I-BRAR ~/oods Division Marathon Corp. of Canada Ltd. �PAGE 2 JANUARY 1949 LOG BOOK -·-... .......... , - "\ -- SERVING THE TIMBER INDUSTRY IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO Representing= WRIGHTS' CANADIAN ROPES LIMITED PRENCO (AEROQUIP HIGH PRESSURE HOSE WITH REUSABLE COUPLINGS INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED DROTT MANUFACTURING CORPORATION LOMBARD GOVERNOR CORPORATION W. D. BEATH & SON LIMITED CANADIAN MIXERMOBILE COMPANY LIMITED NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS LIMITED THE FRANK G. HOUGH CO. CONSOLIDATED DIESEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION READY POWER COMPANY DOMINION HOIST & SHOVEL COMPANY LIMITED JEFFREY MANUFACTURING CO. LIMITED J. D. ADAMS LIMITED PACIFIC CAR AND FOUNDRY CO. JIFFY HYDRAULIC LUBRICATORS We specialize in shop overhauls. It is more economical for the customer than doing their own repairs. TWIN CITY INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT LTD: LOGGING - INDUSTRIAL - CONSTRUCTION - MUNICIPAL & MiNING EQUIPMENT OFFICES AND SHOPS - 91 S MEMORIAL AVE. PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO �JANUARY 1949 PAGE 3 LOG BOOK THUNDER BAY TIMBER OPERATORS ASSOCIA .P11,euJeut' It has proved by the members of the Op n to continue the "Log Book". It is gra now that that our magazine is serving a useful purpose. We would like to repeat that if readers or members at any time have ideas or suggestions which they think would add to the betterment and improvement of the logging industry the management would be more than pleased to have them. As we enter the new year of 1949 there are signs that the timber industry is entering a new phase. The insatiable demand of the past 7 or 8 years seems to have reached and end. lt is hoped in the interest of all concerned that this will prove to be only a period of "leveling-off" and that the great volume of timber produced in this area will maintain a comparatively high level. In order to do our bit towards retaining a high level of production and demand we must all become )°st co,_nscious. We must place ourse•lves in a position ,o compete with any other wood producing area. For this year then the watchword shtJuld be 11 11 1 "economy • Our target' should be a continuance of the. present policy of increasing the general standards and conditions in the woods, of developig better and more efficient ,:neons of handling wood, of eliminating n·eedless waste and inefficiency, with the end result of producing wood or wood products at a price which can meet competition from any source. It wi II behoove us all from the apprentice on up to the man11 11 ager to keep economy in the forefront and there can be no doubt that we will then reach our target. 1 H. H. ' Bert'' Styffe SUPPORT GIVEN TO THE FORESTRY COURSE, LAKEHEAD TECHNICAL INSTITUTE At the annual meeting of the Thunder Bay Tim1 ber Operators Association, the following were appointed to the advisory committee to the forestry course, Lakehead Technical Institute: Messrs .... P. -Y. Lemay D. A. Clark J. H. Merrill H. L. Moffatt F. L. Stevens Bursaries amounting to $200.00 will be given the advisory committee and summer employment for -"-he students was arranged. COVER PICTURE Buck-Sawing Contest at Abitibi Camp. Buck-Sawing Contest February l st and 2nd will see the first Northwestern Ontario Championship Buck-Sawer declared. Camp competitions have been held and considerable interest has been shown in the camps both by the contestants and the spectators . . Such contests and other sports should be a regul ar occurence in the camps. It just takes a little iniative to get sports started. Sporting competitions will help relieve the monotony of camp iife. Employees should 11 be urged to "help themselves in this regard. Companies gave sweaters or other prizes to the Camp Champions and Company Champions won the trip to the Winter Carnival with all expenses paid . The Grand Champion will win: ( 1) Trip to Montreal to represent the Winter Carnival at the Buck-Sawing Contest March 25th, 26th, 1949 (2) Gold Medal (3) $25.00. Cash Other prizes are: 2nd. prize (1) Silver Medol, (2) $25.00 cash. 3rd. prize ( 1) Bronze Medal (2) $15.00 cash. 4th. prize ( l) Consolation $10.00 cash. Contestants with the Best Beard - $10.00 GENERAL RULES (a) Contestants must have their own buck-saw. (b) A uniform frozen green peeled spruce bolt of approximately i O'' diameter is to be used for bucksawing contests. (c) The bolt will be held firmly in a saw-horse and the saw bolt position will be used for all contest11 ants. The bolt wi 11 be l 8 above the platform and grouna. (d) One try at the log is all that can be permitted. (This may be increased to two, depending on the number of entrants.) Poor starts wi 11 not be tolerated as a reason for a new start. (e) Excessive knots or foreign material in the cut may be cause to have a recut made by the contestants. (g) Breaking equipment during the cut will disqualify that cut, but the contestant may try another cut. COMMUNITY CHEST TIMBER CAMP CANVASS A SUCCESS Men in the Timber Camps donated generously to the Community Chest drive. The Port Arthur Community Chest reports final donations as follows Lumber & Sawmill Workers Union Local 2786 $ 50.00 Abitibi Power & Paper Company, Limited 787.45 Alexander-Clark Timber Company, Limited 168.50 Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited l 09 .00 Hammermill Paper Company 269.70 Marathon Paper Mills of Canada Limited 532.50 Northern Forest Products Limited ' 135.00 Newaygo Timber Company, Limited 204.50 Nipigon Lake Timber Company, Limited 221.50 North Star Timber Company, Limited 39.00 Ontario Paper Company, Limited 863.55 Oscar Stvffe Limitea 195.50 Total $3,576.20 Officials of the Chest appreciate very much the support and the work done by roremen, clerks and other personnel in collecting the donations. 1 �PAGE 4 JANUARY 1949 LOG BOOK Why Not Continue Classes ? by E. V. ROSS 11 This is my arm, that is your nose," have been the pass words to many classrooms in bunk-houses, vans and railway cars during the last two years. Progress has been good. The majority of the newcomers to Canada have mastered a knowledge of Basic English and have begun to know Canada and the responsibilities of citizenship. Most of the newcomers have taken at least one 1 "vacation tour ' for a preliminary look at Canada. Many plans are in the development stage. Capital acquired in the bush is being used for professional study by immigrant doctors, lawyers, engineers, and teachers. Farms are being purchased, homes constructed, businesses established. Our newcomers are quickly becoming Canadians-and are a credit to Canada. One significant discovery relative to the programme of studies in English and Citizenship has been the "uncovering" of teacher talent. Clerks and foremen have provided their help. "Why not continue classes ?n With some change in subject matter, classes could be set up for oldtimer ond newcomer alike. Books, film strips, and other aids are available for guided study. Wherever a group of at least l O men show interest and an instructor is available classes can operate. Any camp interested in setting up classes may apply to E. V. Ross, District Representative, Community Programmes, Department of Education, 400 Catherine Street, Fort William, for advice and assistance. An ideal location of Slasher at Mardhon, Stevens mechanical operation. It doesn't happen very often. ALL YEAR PRODUCTION The Great Lakes Lumber & Shipping, Limited Mission Sawmill switched from pond logs to the deck November 26th, 1948 to be exact at 7.a.m. The first logs used were those decked last July and being quite dry the boys in the Sawmill somewhat resembled the "DUSTY MILLER" (floun. The logs are loaded by a crane which picks up with a "clam" l O to 15 logs and lowers them to sleigh. When the sleigh is loaded-about l 00 logs-, it is hauled by tractor to the unloading platform at the Sawmill.'' "The Nioigon'' TIMBER CULLERS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING - APRIL 18, 1949 PRESENT OFFICERS OF THE TIMBER CULLERS ASSOCIATION ARE - PAST PRESIDENT PRESIDENT VICE-PRES! DENT SECRETARY EXECUTIVE ls!;ue Vol. No. 53 THE NEW HORNET POWER SA Les Murphy W. H. Jarvis W. J. Hughes J. R. Denley Gil Lalonde Marshall Godfrey Dave Ailen Sam Cowan Jack Horn James Peden THE NEW HORNET MODEL DJ WITH l 6-INCH CUTTING LENGTH.* INDEX NUMBERS OF WAGE RATES SHOWS LOGGING INDUSTRY HAS LARGEST INCREASE A bookelt "Wage Rates and Hours of Labour in Canada, 194?" published by the Dominion Department of Labour, shows the index numbers of wage rates for certain main groups of industries in Canada in 1947 as follows. 1939 index rate for all industries 100. 195. l Logging 166.7 Coal Mining 157.7 Metal Mining Manufacturing 183.3 155.0 • Qonstruction Water Transportation 183.8 Steam Rairways 142.3 Electric Railways 162.3 Laundries 170.5 Telephones 132.2 General Average 173.7 Engineered and designed by men who know power s;:.. ws, this new model combio P• top performance, light weir dependability and ease ot o per- ation. Powerful, smooth, fast cutting and rugged enough to meet toughest requirements. Light weight assures freedom of movement and cuts work fatigue. See a demonstration or write for full details. *Also available in 20", 24" and 30" lengths. Designed, engineered and manufactured by: HORNET INDUSTRIES GUELPH LIMITED ONTARIO Distributed by: Vietor Ames & Co. Ltd. (G. McCormack, Branch Manager.> 111 S. ALGOMA ST PORT �JANUARY 1949 - - - - - - - - - - - -- Piet Vooges - MANAGER LOG BOOK Eric Cordrey - PA GE S SERVICE Jim Murphy - PARTS Our Port Arthur Branch Was Established to Provide You With the Quickest Possible Service Cummins Diesels Sheppard Diesels - Enterprise Diesels Steeleraft Tugs Russel Engines BARGES, WORK BOATS, ETC . • RUSSEL-HIPWELL ENGINES LTD. & RUSSEL BROS. LTD. 235 BAY STREET, PORT ARTHUR, PHONE N. 1592 �PAGE 6 JANUARY 1949 LOG BOOK FROST BITE Visit Sawmills In Finland and Sweden The Army has issued good advice on the prevention and treatment of frost-bite. Here are some tips.To avoid frost-bite do not use grease or cream on the skin as it actually aids freezing. This fortunah-;ly does not apply to women's cosmetics. Wear mitts with pile on the back, or woollen ·mitts, that can be held against the face when intense ,cold strikes. If your nose is frozen the best way to thaw it out is to hold the pile or wool mitt over the nose and mouth and breath into the mitt. As for other frost-bite treatment, do not use •snow, oil, or. grease, and do not rub or message the frozen part, even if tbese old-time cures come to mind. In case of severe frost-bite, get out of the cold immediately and heat up the rest of the body. Then elevate the frozen portion and thaw out very slowly Avoid pressure of any kind on the frozen portion. After that, it's up to a doctor to prescribe further treatment. Harry Hogeweide, Mel Bryan and Art Swanson have returned from an extensive tour of sawmi 11 ing industries in Finland and Sweden. They are full of admiration for the feeling of co-operation between management and labour in the countries visited, and have brought back reports of the many ways in whicfthis is shown-a workman's intense sense of respon-sibility for the machines he works with, his care of these same machines with resulting small loss of time, the scrupulous way in which each workman does his share to keep the plant and rest rooms as clean os possible and how careful each man is to make sure nothing is wasted, not , even the smallest piece of lumber. In short, the company's interest is the workman's interest and vice-versa. Judge: "Divorce Case"-"So, I've decided TO gove your wife fifty bucks a month." Scaler: -"Thanks a lot judge, 1-- 11 try and slip her the odd buck or so myself." ONE TREE CAN MAKE A MILLION MATCHES, ONE MATCH CAN DESTROY A MILLION TREES! "Nipigon" Vol l Issue 52 .-·.1i . 1'1:;.l JROMPTON SAFETY SLOGAN The October 1948 issue of the Brampton Broadcaster announced an "Accident Prevention Slogan Contest." The winners of the contest a re: S. Moire Forsythe, Clerk Camp 52-Prize $5.00 "PRACTICE PRECAUTION SPARE THAT COFFl·Ki." L. Robinson, Tallyman, Camp 17-Prize $2.00 "BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR AXE REMEMBER MISSING THAT TREE MAY COST YOU A KNEE." • WRITE - WIRE or PHONE YOUR ORDER DISPATCHED THE SAME DAY RECEIVED Super Fast Serviee on Genuine FORD PARTS THE ONLY AUTHORIZED FORD-MONARCH DEALER IN THUNDER BAY DISTRICT �LOG BOOK JANUARY 1949 PAGE 7 By Ed Nofziger BEAVER' Ensure That The Stamp-Hammer Is Used The Pulpwood Salvage Association, 1948 anriual report shows that the percentage of unstamped sticks ot pulpwood and logs is still too high. Of the wood salvaged in 1948, the percentage stamped was: 1 4 foot wood 39 % 8 foot wood 65 o/o l 6 foot wood 56 'Yo Logs 7 4 1/o While there is no doubt that some• hammermarks wear off, particularly when the wood is beached it is f~lt that a careful check should be made by al I supervisory personnel to ensure that the stamping is done in the first instance. The Marathon Paper Mills of Canada, Limited, have been issued a patent by the Commissioner of Patents, Ottawa, to use an "orange paint smear" as their official mark. In addition to or instead of the paint smear, the Maratthon Paper Mills of Canada Limited may_ use their reg ~stered stamp "Gen". ' 1 JANUARY 19TH HA_PPY DAY FOR NIPIGON AND DISTRIC1' The Red Cross Hospltal at Nip:gon opened on January 19th. The residents of Nipigon and District deserved great credit for their part in this enterprise. This hospital will also be of great assistance t6 the timber industry and will ensure that the sick and injured are cared for much sooner than was previously possible when Lakehead hospitals had to be used. ONE TREE CAN MAKE A MILLION MATCHES ONE MATCH CAN DESTROY A MILLION TREES! Increase SAVES TIME with your per-man production streamlined cutting ..... .... offered by this light, powerful, one-man power chain saw .. . ..... the • CUTS COSTS Mail Coupon or Call at Here . is a fully efficient tool, weighing only 35 lbs. with full fuel tank and 14'' cutter bar. Single cylinder, 2-cycle motor gives 4 H.P. <B.B.H.P. 2.5) for greater cutting efficiency. Improved cjutch and automatic recoil pullback starter assures easy operation. Tested under all conditions, the WOODBOSS has proven efficient in hard, soft, or frozen wood. P. M. Products (1947) Ltd. 278 BAY ST., PORT ARTHUR, ONT. I P. M. PRODUCTS (1947) LTD. (Dept. W17) 278 Bay St., I P. Please send Port Arthur, Ont. full information about the M. WOODBOSS r NAME ........................................................................... . • ADDRESS .................,........................................................ .. �PAGE 8 JANUARY 1949 LOG BOOK Lakehead Region Silviculture Sub-Committee Camp Clerks In Abitibi W. C. Harrison. According to legend and woodsmen, the camp clerk must be a "Jack-of-all-trades". In addition to his regular duties of clerking he has always been considered the general go-between for the company and and the woods workers. Of necessity and perhaps unknowingly he is a personnel or labour relations man; he advises the woods worker financially; he must have knowledge of all the various supplies that a camp uses in a single year; he must know something about operating methods; it is his duty to keep close watch on inventories and to do many other jobs which are aln:-iost too numerous to list here. So all in all the camp clerk is a very busy man almost 24 hours per day. With this in mind and taking other things into consideration, Abitibi recentiy revised its Woods accounting system with a view t0wards reducing the daily and month-end routine work of the camp clerks. Now that this revision is almost a "fait accompli" the status of the camp clerk has been changed to the extent that he is presently classed as the Camp Bussiness Manager. The change-over of course was not abrupt. Careful planning was required especially insofar as the individual camp clerks were concerned, and in order that they would be properly prepared, it was felt that we could do no better than to develop a training program for them. Consequently, the camp clerks were g iven a course in J. I.T. (Job Instructor Training) based on the development of the Supervisory Training program of the company. As time goes on the clerks will be given other "J" courses with special emphasis being placed on J.R.T. (Job Relations Training). Training was also given in the application of the revised ac counting system. No training program can be consid-ered complete when the initial steps have been taken with the result that a follow-up program is being de·· veloped to suit the requirements of each division of the company The Camp Business Manager as the title implies has been allotted additional responsibilities now that there i5 iess time being spent on routine clerking, The co-operation that is required between the camp foreman, the camp business manager and the camp cook, the three most important key personnel in any camp organization, is of the utmost importance. With a manager tn charge of the busines affairs of the camp the remainder of the key personnel have more time to devote to the many supervisory duties that they require to perform. Mr. G. R. Sonley of the Marathon Paper Mills of Canada Limited and Mr. J. H. Godden of the Great Lakes Paper Company, Limited were appointed members of the Siliviculture Committee of the Wocdlands Section, Canadian Pulp & Paper Assocition to represent the Lakehead Region and to form a Lakehead Sub-Committee. A meeting of this Committee was held in Port Arthur in December and foresters of companies were present at the meeting. A questionnaire prepared by the Woodlands Section was answered and as a result of discussion the following recommendation was made "Si nee si lviculture is the application of the know· ledge of silvics in the treatment of a forest, and since very little factual knowledge of silvics of our Canadian species exi sts, it is recommended that research be instituted in this very important subject." Chief Instructor, School of Food Technology, The Ryerson Institute of Technology, Toronto, Visits Bush Camps It is believed that the only school in Canada training cooks at this time is the school of Food Technology, The Ryerson Institute of Technology, Toronto. This School is under the Department of Education of Ontario. In order to acquaint Mrs. G. A. Dobson, the chief instructor with the conditions, labour , wages and problems of feeding in the camps, it was arranged that Mrs. Dobson visit camps in North Western Ontario. Between November l l th and November 15th, Mrs. Dobson visited approximately 35 camps i(l the Thunder Bay area on the invitation of the Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association. Camps were visited in the Black Sturgeon area. of the Abitibi Power & Paper Company, Limited~ The Great Lakes Paper Co. and the Great Lakes Lumber & Shipping Limited, also the Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited, camps at Beardmore, Ont. and the Marathon Paper Mills of Canada, Limited, camps at Stevens and Caramant. By the last official count of noses, in 194 l, there were 7,639 Eskimos in Canada-about as many people as there in Kenora, Ont.-Quick Canadian Facts ••• LUMBERMEN'S - CAMPER'S - HOUSEHOLD & MINER'S SUPPLIES See Our Large Stock of Hunting Supplies FOR Alt. YOUR HARDWARE - SHOP AT COCHRANE BARDW ARE Q (PORT ARTHUR) LIMITED PORT ARTHUR PHONE 200 ONTARIO �LOG BOOK JANUARY 1949 PLAN OF SWIVEL FLOUR PAGE 9 ' BARREL Most Lakes kitchens of tne Paper Company, Great Limited, ' Black Sturgeon Camps have a swivel flour barrel in use. This is a STEEL BAND 1-8)( ( time and labour saver and is very much appreciated by the cooks. Mr. J. A. Seller, Superintendent of the Block Sturgeon District is reported GENERAL VIEW BOTTOM VIEW SIDE VIEW Mr. J. A. Sellers, Superintendent in the Black Sturgeon area was responsible for the installation of the swivel flour barrel in the camps of the Great Lakes. Paper Company kitchens, Black Sturgeon Division. • to be the inventor and deserves congratulations for this idea. Safety Tips For Trucks And Passenger Cars Both foot brakes and emergency brakes shall be in good working condition . Vehicles must not operate with broken windows. Hei0dlights shall be in good operating· condition at all times A flashlight in good operating condition shall 1 Ibe kept in each truck or car. A vehicle must not be allowed to operate with a leak in the exhaust pipe. Horn must always be in good working order. No one shall ride on running boards or fenders. Workmen must not board or leave any moving truck or car Two fighting Irishmen were borught before a judge, who said; "Why don't you two settle thi•s case out of court?'· "Sure, that's what we were doin'," one of them answered, "and the police came and inter,f ored.' PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THEY MAKE THIS BOOKLET POSSIBLE HUMOR AT THE BUCK-SAWING CONTEST The cook insists on entering the contest using his usual stock in trade . .- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 I ROY GIBBON AGENCIES !/HJud,uaJ M~81Uf aHJ Suppli,e4 e DISSTON SAWS & KNIVES • MONARCH LEATHER BELTING • FORANO PULP MILL & SAW MILL EQUIPMENT e TRERICE THERMOMETERS, GUAGES AND TRAPS Your Enquiries are solicited PHONE N. 140 & Expert Advice obtained for your problems PORT ARTHUR 45A CUMBERLAND ST., S. �0 AGE 10 LOG BOOK "JOE BEAVER" By Ed JANUARY 1949 Nofziger \ lr.'Kl'=-~• SaJeit, ,) Noied. 'Il l : -ALWAYSI/ 8- 8E (i~ 11, TREE, SPARE THAT WOODSMAN - I c-~ARtFOC ~ IC . J( ij~ ' ~- "The factious title of this editorial was prompted by the fact that in 1947 there were 267 who were hurt while felling trees, three of them receiving fatal injuries." (Marathon Courier, October 1948) MENTAL ALERTNESS .. VITAL TO WOODS SAFETY "Yes, almost everything concerned with logging has changed or been modernized everything that is, but man's regard for his personal safety. He still - fal Is into unsafe working habits, that not only endanger his own life, but that of his fellow-workers." ·O-M Mandonian) (The ~ ....... BUSH SAFETY IS IMPERATIVE - ,,:- ·-.-. (The Great Lakes Paper Co., "Link" BROMPTON ACCIDENT PREVENTION CONTEST .... •:,, ~~,., ~ " Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture In November the men in Camp No. 28, Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited won a box of apples. This camp had the most man days worked and no accidents. A new contest for January is underway. (Brampton Broadcaster "A is for, Ah . . . Always-0 Company Safety Officers are continually preaching accident prevention and safety. All the safety material published, all the rules and regulations which can be created, all the safety devices that can be attached to machines, all tb~ guards that can be erected, and all the warning signs that can .be posted are useless, unless responsible individuals are interested in the task of eliminating and reducing accidents. (Responsible individuals definitely includes foremen and clerks.) Read the fellowing extracts from the CODE FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS !N LOGGING OPERATIONS (Prepared and Published by the Quebec Pulp & Paper Safety Association Inc.) flRST AID MATERIAL - MAIN TRUCK ROADS -· First aid tainer, must be the operation. ments, drive or Main truck roads, all curves, crossings, bridges. etc., must be marked by road signs. material, kept in a good clean conon hand in all camps at the start of This includes contsruction, improvelogging camps. SKIDDING AND PILING While skidding, the skidder must walk on the inside of curves or behind the logs. When skidding across a slope, the skidder must walk on the slope above the log ROLLWAYS The front of the rollway must be blocked. A standing tree must never be used to brace the front of a rol lway. HAULING When using a jammer, it must be supported by at least two guy ropes. Binder chains must always be used when hauling logs. When necessary to uncouple sleighs o~ a hill, the sleighs must be blocked. Pulp hooks must always be placed with the point downward when hung on the sleigh post. All bridges must be protected on either side at least by stringers along the length of the flooring. Damaged road surfaces shal I be protected by red flags and, or, flares. During the hauling season, all hauling roads which cross a truck road shall be protected by red flags. When teiephone wires cross roads, a minimum of 15' clearance must be allowed TRUCK OR TRACTOR HAULING Men must not go between moving sleighs for coupling. When slings are used to unload sleighs, the men must stand clear of the load before the hoisting signal is given. Men must not ride on the loaded sleighs. Check your own operations. �JANUARY 1949 LOG BOOK PAGE 11 FOREST FIRES Last summer-and all those fires-is history now. Spring and next summer are a long way off, but, NOW IS THE TIME TO DO SOME PLANNING FOR 1949 1. 2. 3. What preventive methods can be best used on your limits? Check your fire suppression plans. Line up your key men and give them training in organizing and directing fire tactics. BE PREPARED FOR 1949 - BY PLANNING NOW! Here's Some Items To Check NOW! Forest Fire Suppression Class Several years ago the mi II unions of the Spruce Falls Power & PapBr Company, Limited were instrumental. in producina the idea of a forest tire suppression cl.ass for the purpose of training a number of the mi 11 employees for the work in fighting forest fires. Three years ago the first class was held with about 40 volunteers attending. Courses were held again this summer with some of the former class attending and also a number of new volunteers. All concerned feel that the course was worth the effort. C. P. P. A. Woodlands Review Why not all the mills follow this plan? Organized and trained fire crews will be a great asset and wi II enable fires to be put out sooner and with less loss of timber. BACK OF INDUSTRY BACK OF OUR JOBS STANDS THE FOREST Keep Our Forests Green STOVES 1. All camp stoves shall be equipped with a stove pipe key to control the draft. 2. Stove pipes should never be closer than 4 to an unprotected wal I. If closer than that, the wal I shall be protected with tin but in no case shall any stove pipe be closer than 2 ft. 3. Stove pipe holes in the roof or wall must be sufficiently large to allow at least six inches of clearance all around the pipe. Any beams within one foot shall be protected with tin. In the case of a double roof, a large tin pai I or circu1ar pieces of tin or sheet iron shall be installed to stop moss from falling against the pipe. 4. A large piece of tin shall be placed in front of and partially under the stove to prevent any live coals falling on the floor. 5. Rubbish must never be allowed to accumulate near the stove and firewood shall be pi led at least 12" form the stove. 6. Coal oil must not be used for lighting stoves. 1 GARAGES l. A container must be provided in the garage for oiJy rags or rubbish. 2. At least one fire extinguisher in good working order must be provided, and at least one pailful of sand shall be kept in each garage. 3. • If the garage is equipped with a stationary engine, an exhaust pipe is required to conduct the exhaust gases outside the bui Iding. FORESTRY NEWS TWO DEFINITIONS OF FORESTRY "Forestry" is "The scientific management of forests for the continuous production ·. of goods and services." Continuous spells stability; goods means industry; services stands for employment. "Forestry is the art of -so managing a forest that ,t will produce the largest volume of wood of the most desirable species, of the best quality, in the shortest time, at lowest cost, continuously, forever." Each phase is siqnificant and essential. The aim is high production continuous employment, for all time. It is called sustained yield .The Northwestern Ontario section, the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers have agreed to supply ar" ticles on forestry for the 1949 issues of the Log Book. The first article will be published in the March issue and these issues should be of interest to us all. �PAGE 12 LOG BOOK Pulp &Paper Research Institute Officer Says: "Use Gravity-- Don't Fight It." Director of Woodlands Re£earch, ?ulp & Paper: Research Institute of Canaclc. Logging wood on steep hills is o~e of the toughest problems found to be in the bush. Our usual practice 1s to skid or haul wood with horses, in spite of rough ground and excessively steep grades. This is inefficient-costly, very hard on men and horses, often risky; and considerable wood is wasted on the stump as too ha rd to get. This common practice is dependent on a wrong principle. The gravity force, instead of being used, is fought. For each relatively small load the teamster and the horse; • have to make two trips-climb up and come down. Actuaily only one-way transportation is required, straight down the hill; and given a chance gravity will do the work, free of charge. A simple, logical way is to send wood down a strong wire, tightly stretched between a tree on the hi 11 and another one at the bottom. It took C. R. Si Iversides, Woodlands Research Associate, and me, over three years to work out, 'in co-operation with several paper companies,- a practical technique of bringing pulpwood bolts down steep slopes "by wire". Now this process is ready for effective commercial application and much credit for this advance is due to the recent JANUARY 1949 experiments on the operations of St. Anne Power Compony; Pat Clair of that company's Woods Department should be "patted on the shoulder". USE GRAVITY INSTEAD This ingenious method of logging very steep hillsides provides for sendng small loads of wood by gravity down over a steel wire and for automatic discharge of the loads at the bottom Including installation of the wire and its moving as needed, less than on hour is required to bring a cord of wood down a 60 percent, 500 foot slope. With experience, this output should increase. The work is Gravity equipment is comparatively light, easy to pack over-- hilly terrain. Skidding by wire is a practical method of b_rfoging pulpwood bolts down steep slopes, where ordinary hauling practice would prove costly and wasteful. Particultary important on hillsides, it will prevent land erosion and damage to the remaining young growth. Equipment is simple and cheap • • done by two men, or even by one. The essential equipment consists of a coil of strong steel wire, a very small hand winch for tensioning the wire and steel rings with chain slings for load attachment. It is very cheap and light. This is "mechanization" of logging where needed most, almost without machinery; with gravity in stead of oil. Not only is it an easy way, as compared to our usual practice, but it should permit use of wood now being wasted as "inaccessible". It is fully compatible with silvicultural considerations, particularly important on steep hillsides, to prevent land erosion and damage to the remaining growth. Let us hope that "skidding by wire" will be tried out and adapted widely by the people who do not necessarily wait for "George." This new method obviously is so simple and attractive that the question naturally comes up, "Why haven't we done it before?" As a matter of fact, in 1825, on Mount Vesuvius in Italy, this principle was used with success; and it has been used since, here and there, at times, mostly with good effect. As the force of gravity is available free, this: method op parently had no consistent promotion until the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada undertook to do some research 7l �LOG BOOK JANUARY 1949 PAGE 13 MARATHON FILM "EVOLUTION IN LOGGING" MADE AVAILABLE TO OTHER COMPANIES Advertisers' News NESCO SLASHERS IMPROVED Mr. J. Patton of the Northern Engineering & This film depicts the change over from manua) to mechanical woods operations and was taken in the Stevens area. Companies wishing to borrow this film may do so by contacting Mr. P. V. LeMay, Woods operating manager of the Marathon Paper Mi I ls of Canada Limited. Copies of the Booklet "Mechanicai Logging for Pulpwood" are still available. Copies may be ordered from the Marathon Paper Mills of Canada Limited, Public Uti Ii ties Building, Port Arthur, Ontario at a cost of $2.00 each. Supply Company·, Limited reports that the Nesco Slasher has been greatly improved by use of hydraulic installations. Also, a new method of moving the tree lengths to the Slasher has greatly improved the production 17 Slashers are now in the woods 10 with Marathon Paper Mills of Canada, Limited; 4 with the Ontario-Minnesota Pulp & Paper Company, Limited (U.S.A.); 1 with Brampton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited and one with the Ontario Paper Company, Limited and the Canadian Industrial Paper Company, Limited have one on order. Attention Camera Owners The Caterpi I lar Tractor Company, Peoria, 111., has issued new booklets recently that will be of interest to men in the woods industry: Power that Serves the Logger . Logging in the North Woods. Sawmilling with Caterpillar Diesel Power. Copies of these booklets may be secured with out charge from the Powell Equipment Co., Limited,l•. .. Port Arthur, Ontario • ~ ·i :. The editor will welcome pictures suitable for publication in the Log Book. Pictures showing new or different methods of using equipment or innovations or inventions put into practice wiil be welcomed. Simply send a negative or a proof which will be returned after using. - " I have definitely decided not to Scaler to Wife: drink any more." 2060 pounds of bone-dry chips (re-claimed from 1,_i~il Wife: -"No use ; ; ; You couldn't posslabs at a saw mi 11) is equivalent to a cord of wood. .r,l iilll sibly drink any more." ~ tk · 1 THE NORTHERN ENGINEERING & SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED FORT WILLIAM ONTARIO CANADA - -- "\ -- - - ------ - - - - - - ~ --, MODEL HS 2000 1948 U. S. PATENT-41135-6 CANADIAN PATENT APPLIED FOR TREE-LENGTH SLASHER AND LOADER NESCO EQUIPMENT ENSURERS - ECONOMICAL - SPEEDY - CONTINUOUS - OPERATION �PAGE 14 LOG BOOK INTERESTING STATISTICS ON PULP & PAPER MILLS IN CANADA BY PROVINCES IN 1947 Canada British Quebec Columhia Other Provinces Establishments No. 115 50 8 12 Pulp Mills No. 29 11 4 6 Pulp & Paper Mills No. 59 32 3 6 Paper Mill~. No 27 7 l Total employees No. 49,946 - 23,685 - 4,426 - 4,918 Salaries and wages 129,477,995 - 60,623,167 - 12, 414,932 - 12,204,785 The Pulp & Paper Magazine of Canada reports that new records were again set in 1947 by Canada's pulp & paper industry. The above figures refer to the manufacturing stages of the pulp & paper industry and no_ woods figures are included. 1949 Executive of the Northwestern Ontario Section, Canadian Society of Forest Engineers. ~ _! Elected at the Annual Meeting in December were Past Chairman A. J. Auden Chairman George R. Sonley Vice-Chairman H. H. Styffe Councillors James Barron A. J. Auden D. W. Start G. F. Meyer Editorial Rep. Mr. A. J. Auden was appointed section representative (Northwestern Ontario) to the general executive committee for i 948-49 of the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers. JANUARY 1949 Ryerson Institute of Technology Trains Technicians For Industrial Operations Sixteen courses with an attendance of 650 stu• dents are underway at the Ryerson Institute of Technology, 50 Gould Street, Toronto 2, Ontario. In addition 700 students take special courses in the evening. It is possible that the woods industry may have openings for graduates of this school and it is believed that the following courses .might be of interest to woods' operators: SchooJ of Electronics School of Business School of Food Technolagy School of Machine Tool Technology School of Welding Fabrication School of Stationary Engineering Motor Vehicle Repairs Any company desiring information about these courses may write direct to the principal of the institute. Wife "Just suppose we wives should go on strike?' Husband "Go right ahead. I've got a peach of a strike breaker in mind THIS BOOK IS PRINTED BY THE CONSOLIDATED PRESS, 137 S. MAY ST., FORT WILLIAM, ONT Northland Machinery Supply Co. Ltd. FORT WILLIAM ONTARIO Representing: DUNLOP INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS LONDON CONCRETE MACHINERY CO. LTD. Complete stock of V-belts and Trans- Hand and Motor driven hoists, drag- mission l~ne hoists, centrifugal pumps from 11/2 Belting and Rubber Hose. to 1011 , pneumatic tired wheelbarrows DOMINION WIRE ROPE &CABLE CO. LTD. Wire rope for all logging needs, sizes from 1/s 11 to l I I and all accessories available from stock. H, DISSTON & SONS lndustr_ i al, circular and band saws. Ship•· ment on short notice. ond Dumpover carts. LINCOLN ELECTRIC CO. OF CANADA LTD. Arc welders, electrodes and accessories from our warehouse. DOMINION OXYGEN CO. LTD. Complete line of gas welding rod, accessories-acetylene and Gxygen in stock. �PAGE LOG BOOK JANUARY 1949 This ~,nit owned and operated by Canadian International Poper Company (Opawica Division). Modern Logging Has Created a Heavy Demand for EUCLIDS Tractor and trailer sho~ used to haul 20 cord loads of 12' pulpwood 15 miles at AVERAGfl loaded· speed of 20 M. P.H. Whatever off-the-highway hauling there is to be done, there's a specially designed EUCLID to do it. Enquire today about the EUCLIDS line. TRACTOR TRAILER 190 H.P. Diesel Engine, speeds - 2 M.P.H. to 27 M.P.H., Weight - 19,600 lbs. Length - 41 ', Capacity Pulpwood 20 cords, Weight - no lood - 16,000 lbs. "EUCLID'' pulling 60 cords of green jackpine at Kowkash, Ont. OWNER: Nipigon Lake Timber Co., Ltd.-Operator E. Sobush FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, WRITE PHONE OR WIRE G. H. GODSALL EQUIPMENT CO. LTD. TORONTO. 213 BAY STREET PORT ARTHUR, TEL N. 1786 MONTREAL PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO 15 �JANUARY 1949 LOG BOOK PAGE 16 An Article That. Should Be Read By All Supervisory Personnel " LEADER SH I P" "To Lead and To Be Lead" (By C H. King at the Annual meeting of logging foremen, supervisors, and superintendents of the Ontario-Minnesota Pulp and Paper Company, Limited, held at Kenora, Ontario, on 9, 23, 48. materials or machines, but leaders of men at work. tor MEN MUST EVER BE LEAD . . . For these reasons, and many more, I don't mind telling you gentlemen here today, that YOU and others like you, the world over, are the MOST IMPORTANT AND ESSENTIAL PEOPLE ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH. . . This is a bold statement . . . But I. make this statement knowing that you are concerned with the most important problem in the world today . . . and that is the problem of people. . . people at work . . . people in whom you place confidence, and upon whom you depend. . . people who are dynamic, working, restless, changing, sometimes a Ii ttle peculiar, and many who are little appreciated or really understood . . . If there is one thing that you and I have learned, out of our many years of experience, it is THAT THE ONE MOST IMPORTANT, SINGLE ELEtv'ENT IN THE WORLD IS "PEOPLE" . . . and, as leaders and management men, your mould is cast, and your lives are garnered for the betterment and improvement of YOUR PEOPLE AT WORK . . . You rank among From all that I hear, and have seen, you men under Jim Ryan's leadership are travelling a modern road of real progress in woods operation . . . Progress which did not start with you . . . neither will it end with you, for progress goes on and on, constantly. Only people stand still, and no one can stand in its path . . . You men, and others like you, across this great land, are A very important link in this great human chain of civiiization and ever moving progress .. You men are the LEADERS . . . who make this progress possible . . . The leaders who devise, organize, and put real red-blooder.l vibrating life into the master plan, designed by those above you, in this great "Mondo" organization. It's up to you men, and others like -you throughout this Company, to make "MANDO" mean to PAPER, what '"STERLING" means in SILVER. Without such leaders as are gathered here in this room, this industry could never have been started 1 and if started, could not have endured for long. This industry, and every industry in any age of civilization, must have its echelon of leaders. . . not leaders ot SUPERIOR - MUNDY - YARDERS SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR PULPWOOD LOGGING AND SALVAGE OPERATIONS LIGHTWEIGHT - HIGH SPEED - FLEXIBLE EQUIPMEN1' AUTOMATIC SPEED CONTROL . 320 TO 1400 FPM LINE SPEED GASOLINE OR DIESEL POWERED "GET MORE FROM YOUR WOODS WITH A LIDGERWOOD" Write for Full Information TIMBER PRODUCERS EQUIPMENT DELBERT PHONE RADISSON 2723 L. LAFLEUR 509 LYCEUM BLDG. �JANUARY 1949 LOG BOOK "Si:::RVING THE TIMBER OPERATORS OF PAGE 17 NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO" C LUMBERMEN'S CLOTHING, BEDDING AND Fort William FOOTWEAR. GROCERIES, FRUITS & YEGETABLES, TOBACCO, the highest in human service, and in the brotherhood of man . . . Without men like you, this would be an undeveloped land. All around us are evidences of the handiwork of your kind. . . I say it is nothing more than a simple case of "PEOPLE" and "LEADERSHIP". You men have been put into your management jobs to get things done. . .but one of the basic eiements of your task as management men is to bui Id and maintain a sound, sincere, sympathetic understanding among your people. . . JUST A GOOD UNDERSTANDI NG . . . an understanding that will make those you lead, want to follow, in confidence, reverence, and res• pect . . . An understanding that will not only make your job possible . . . but, will make your job easier. For it is through your people, that you get your work done Without them, you would be bogged down and helpless . . . you cant get along without them, "that you know'·. . . but, did you ever ask youself this question. . . "Can my employees get along without me?" .. yvith the answer to this question forever before you, lit should be clear, that it is "YOUR RESPONSIBILITY" to develop, and build a compiete understanding among your men, if your job is to be done, and done effectively. This is the job which management assigned to you 1 whether you are a foreman, supervisor, or superintendent. I might add that all down through the ages, since the beginning cf man, no greater stumbling block has confronted the human race, than the hurdle of "MISUNDERSTANDING''. . . Misunderstanding has set us back, and held us down, in all of our human endea~ours in times past. Men have been shot, men have tailed, men have floundered, industrial production has been lost, and wars have been waged, because of "MISUNDERSTANDING" . . . and, misunderstanding is one of the major problems STILL confronting industry today . . . In this problem, steaming from our silly inherent human weaknesses, "misunderstanding" creates a human engineering problem in our everyday human relations, one with· another, more colosal than the building of the pyramids, the great wall of China, and all the other great engineering feats of. the word put together. . . yet your job, as management supervisors, requires that you FIRST have "UNDERSTANDING,, among your men . . . '"JOB UNDERSTANDING". . . and "HUMAN UNDERSTANDING" . . . an understanding in the art of human relations, similar to that of the kindly old judge, who was questioning a young lady, who was applying for (_ ja divorce . . . The judge said: "Madam, do you mean ~ to stand there and tell me that during your twelve years of married life, your husband has spoken to you "ONLY FIVE TIMES?" . . . The lady replied, "THATS ETC. RIGHT, YOUR HONOR, ONLY-FIVE-TIMES . . . The judge granted the little lady her divorce. . . ALSO CUSTODY OF THE FIVE CHILDREN. The judge was certainly understanding in this touching court case of HUMAN RELATIONS, IAND LACK OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. I trust that you men, talk with your employees more frequently than this husband talked to his wife, else you may have some of your men divorcing themselves from the employ of this Company Speaking of Human Understanding, and what we see in other people. . . an old forema11 uncle of mine, had this to say to me at the time he retired from long and faithful service with the Alton Railroad . . . He said, "I didn't understand until I almost reached retirement age, that I had been "ALL WET" as a foreman." He said, "I had been taking the viewpoint that MY MEN were out there to solve MY PROBLEMS. I didn't realize that I was out there to help solve the problems of my men . . . to talk with them, and show a personal interest in their families, their hobbies, their illnesses and misfortunes, their community activities their little differences on the job, their ambitions_ . and their pride". . . He said, "Had I understood that side of my responsibility better, and had I paid a little more attention to the HANDLING OF MY MEN, and DEVELOPING OR TRAINING each one of them fully,, I would have contributed more to the building of a better rai I road organization." He went on to say, "Someone might today be holding down a better job; somebody's home migh, 1 have a piano; somebody's children might be able to go to college, and somebody might be able to buy the food, clothes, and medical care they need." .. He said, "I just didn't know I didn't know that part of foremanship, because I busied myself TOO MUCH with the equipment, tools, , and materialistic side of my job in getting my work done.". . . He said, "Had I given more attention to this other side of foremanship, and had planned with my men, and let them plan with me, we could have ALL developed a better understanding of each other . I might have been pushed up to SUPERINTENDENT, and one of the MEN PUT IN MY JOB . . . Then, too, look where the railroad would have been." ................ .. Uncle Fred had reached a point of understanding about his job, too late . . . It is noteworthv, however that he recognized the VALUE OF, and his RESPONSIBILITY FOR, the TRAINING and the DEVELOPMENT of his men . . . He saw the value and importance of TRAINED PEOPLE working together in complete harmony and .full understanding . . . He had come to recognize "THE IMPORTANCE OF PEOPLE". I don't need to tel I you that ANY ORGAN I ZA- �LOG BOOK Pf.GE 18 JANUARY 1949 J. T. Russell Motors 120 N. ARCHIBALD STREET FORT WILLIAM, ONTARIO Distributors for GENUINE CHRYSLER ENGINEERED PARTS For CHRYSLER INDUSTRIAL-MARINE AND AUTOMOTIVE ENGINES ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION MAIL OR PHONE PHONES. 517 TION without "PEOPLE" is inert. . . It just doesn't exist . . . Take the "PEOPLE" out of this industry, and what have you got left? A pile of brick and mortar some tools and machinery, and a few dollars in the treasury . . . After all, what is it that makes up an institution, organization, cities, towns, and countries::> IT'S PEOPLE!. .. "PEOPLE" is the stuff out of which the whole world is made . . . A wheel never turns, a chimney never smokes, only for "PEOPLE" . . . and, everything man-made ends with' 'PEOPLE", but .. . people themselves never end . . . Like the wind, like Tennyson's Brook, and time itself, "PEOPLE" go on and on forever . . . The sound of the woodsman's axe the pound of the engine, the lumbering crunch o~ your big cats, and the pulsation that comes from EVERY INDUSTRY, is nothing but "THE REFLECTIOI'~ OF PEOPLE'·. . . People who down through the years. have made up the great symphony (of MAN AT WORK", forging out great nations, great industries, and a standard of living undreamed of a few centuries ago . . . We might add here, that all of this progress is to be found, only where the system of free enterprise exists. . . Where there is free opportunity for one man to pit his ingenuity against that of another, and to enjoy his own meritorious award, there from. Let me give you an excerpt here, from "ELLIOT'S MANAGEMENT INFORMATION", which i!lustrates this point An American labor delegation visited the Skoda works in Czecho-Slovakia. The Americans asked: "To whom does this factory belong?:, "We, the people, own it sold the guide3. "Who owns the machinery?" asked the Americans "We, the people own it", the guides answered. "Who gets the profits??" the visitors demanded. "We, the peopie get them", was the reply. Then the Americans saw three large cars parked nearby and asked who owned them. He was told that, ''One is owned by the commissar for defense, the second belongs to the chairman of the workers' committee and the third to the representative from Moscow, wh~ is visiting here. 11 Then a Skoda labor delegation came to America to tour and see our industrial plants. An American labor leader showed them the Ford factory, and the same questions \Vere asked. · "Who owns this factory? the visitors asked "Mr. Ford does", said the American. "Who owns the machinery?" they demanded, and were told Mr. Ford owned it. "Who gets the profits?" the Skoda men continued 1 II 11 , 11 "Mr. Ford does", said the American. Then the visitors saw 30,000 cars parked in a nearby lot, and asked, "Who owns al I those cars?" The American grinned. Then he said: "We, the people, own those cars. Without the leadership of people like yourselves, none of this could happen. . . Without leaders, people tend to work against themselves, stumble around, get in their own way, and lack the necessary drive or enthusiasm FCUND ONLY AMONG FREE MEN, well organized, trained, and lead. . . Can't you see now, why I say that AS FOREMEN, and as SUPERVISORY MANAGEMENT MEN, "YOU" are the most important group of people on the face of the earth . . . NOT AS INDIVIDUALS, but as "LEADERS". . . LEADERS among men for the COMMON GOOD, and WELFARE ct ALL ''PEOPLE'· ,;LEADERSHIP" is an art . . . It is an art to be MORE UNDERSTOOD than learned . . . Some have it some don't . . . Some will learn it, others never. . . . Whatever its elements, we know that ORGANIZATION, DEVELOPMENT, PERSUASION AND PRACTICE, are some of its chief components. One of these elements cannot be employed without the other . . . You can give your people work orders, well planned and organized, together with full explicit explanation or "knowhow about the work or job at hand . . . but, without some kind of "PERSUASION" your job is only part done . . . "PERSUASION" is the HOW, the WHY, the TIMI NG, the SOUND OF YOUR VOICE, the TWINKLE IN YOUR EYE, or the MANNER OF YOUR ACTIONS: which MAKES PEOPLE VOLUNTARILY RESPOND, AND WANT TO BE LEAD. In addition to all these, it takes long persistent "PRACTICE", in working with each man as an individual, on an individual basis; day in and day out . . . to become a good leader . . . a good foreman. . . or a good superintendent. The rewards for good leadership are many . . . /J 11 nnrl nll rewords are earned. . . Leaderc:;hin rPwnrrh: never come by request, and seldom perchance . . . . Some "SO-CALLED leaders, fool themselves by the old "outmoded" trick of "brute force" and "fear". . . the method of "kicking them in the teeth and make them like it",. . or "fire twenty today and hire twenty tomorrow" . . . The methods of fear and trembling are out . . . But we are today reaping the awful harvest which that kind of leaders have sown. . These old worn out methods are replaced by REASON ING . and more CIVILIZED DEALING, as we would like t be dealt by . . . At this point, I'm reminded of an ol "Sergeant out of the First World War . . . He got a 11 (Continued on Page 20) �JANUARY 1949 LOG BOOK us~::~~~~Ls~:!~~S b~~.!~:i~~ PAGE 19 c~~:~~!~~~ !!~~Ls" ~ Prices and Full Particulars on re Marshall• Wells i o qn CANADA'S LARGEST HARDWARE DISTRIBUTORS Films For Bush Camps Movies now reach the majority of bush workers in the Thunder Bay area. In addition to these entertainment shows, many camps now see the best of the educot1),:mal and documentary films,. In the cities, the demand for such fi I ms as are produced by the National Film Board is now well established. Film iibraries such as the Thunder Bay Film Library provide hundreds of films each month to clubs and community groups. This service has now been extended to many bush camps. Thus, in the bush camps just as in the cities, films about Canadian life and customs, about recreation, music and art, about international problems, health, and a hundred other topics, now reach out to interest and instruct people in every walk of iife. In the Thunder Bay area, company projectionists cooperate willingly to satisfy this demand. They secure their educational shorts at no cost from the Public. Librairies of Port Arthur and Fort William. In some cases a whole programme of educational and documentary films is provided. In others, a twenty-minute ,.. short subject is added to the regular entertainment programme. It has been both surprising and gratifying to note the interest, and even enthusiasm, created by these f i Ims. In camps where D.P.'s attend classes in Basic English and Citizenship, films about Canada, its people, resources and industry, help them to understand their adopted country _ ~ There are still many camps where s □ ch films are not yet available. Information about~ how the service may be provided may be obtained from: Will Dougall District Representative, BE CAREFUL! FLUORESCENT LAMPS-DISPOSAL OF DANGEROUS TOXICS WHEN BREAKING UP The Canadian Building Owners' and Managers' Association of Montreal warn that a great deal of caution must be exercised when disposing of old or handling new fluorescent bulbs. They advise that most of our present day fluoresent bulbs contain fro!':' one ( 1) to four (4) percent beryllium powder and that experience has shown that this powder is much more toxic than was first thought. If this powder comes in contact with open lesions of the skin, dangerous results may ensue. The glass of the lamp is very fine and penetrating and often flies with a great deal of force when a tube is broken. If any of this glass penetrates the skin, a physician should be contacted at once. It is suggested that extreme care be exercise ...i in the handling .and storage of these lamps. Disposal shoud be effected by sinking in a sfream or by burying in the ground in a .. disposal area, where there is • no danger of contacf·oy chridren. When burying, the-y should be placed in a hole, covered over with sacking or paper and about 2 inches of earth, then broken b~ a stone or other object. Hole should then be filled in . ~ 'r, . . 1. , BE CAREFUL! • ....... CENTRAL B•KE ..- AND BUTCHER ..SHOPS . ,.:,,, ... ,, The Marathon Paper Mills , of Canada, Limitec have a central butcher shop in oper.ation at the Steven~ depot ' -.-..~The Ontario-Minnt~ot,g Pulp., & Paper Company Limited have recenfty opened "a central bake and butcher shop in ·the headquarters camp of the PatriciG area , .· WOOD SUPPLY COMPANY Memorial Avenue - o_ Port Arthur, Ont. PHONE N. 219 Specialists in Machine Shop Tools and Supplies D~STRIBUTORS FOR UNION TWIST DRILL COMPANY DRILLS, CUTTERS, REAMERS, TAPS & DIES �JANUARY 1949 LOG BOOK PAGE 20 ed muscular mortions per hour or day. 11 But you cannot buy enthusiasm. . . you cannot buy initiative . . . you cannot buy loyalty. . . . . you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. "As a supervisor, you have to earn those things." You may be asking yourself, "HOW CAN I EARN THOSE THINGS?" .. . "How may I be a good leader" . . . Leadership (Cont. from Page l 8) job down on the waterfront loading ships; become a straw boss, and later became a foreman. . . He did a good job . . . His ships were loaded right, and on time. They sailed with the sun . . . There was no demurage on those vessels . . . Sometimes in loading those ships, however, they had to dig up and patch a few crew members, but the ships went out. . . One day the General Superintendent called him in and said, "Sergeant, I don't need to tell you that as a Foreman, you've done a "damned good job" . . . You've done your job without any "IFS", "ANDS" or "BUTS" . . . Sometimes I think you've been a little bit ruthless, but I realize you are dealing with rough men. •i • Sergeant, we are living in a new era of human beings, and that kind of leadership will have to stop. You can't knock 'em down and give orders like that. You are going to have to lead them". . . And he ,said, Sergeant, i have some menial reservations about your leadership ability . . . Now do you think you can really lead these men?" . . . The old sergeant looked him square in the eye and said. . . "Of course i can. . . but "God-damn 'em they better follow me" . . . That's one kind of leadership, but ifs not the kind we want in this company. As stated in "ELLIOT'S MANAGEMENT I NFORMATION": uYou can buy a man's time. (This article will be completed in the March issue of the Log Book) Said a medical doctor recently, "Beverage alchohol gives you a red nose, a black eye, a white liver, a yellow streak, a green brain, a dark-brown breath, and a blue outlook.'' "'U" AND "I" IN BUSINESS lf you will look at the word 11 business" you will find "U" and "I" are in it. In fact, if "U" and "I" were left out it wouldn't be "business". Therefore, if there is to be any such thing as ; 'business" we must keep "U" and "I" in it. Furthermore, "U" comes before "I" which might be interpreted to mean that each must think ot the other. If that is done "business" should become harmonious and mutually profitable Gilbert Paper Company "You can buy a man's physical presence in a given place. "You can even buy a measured number of skill- There's nothing like c wedding to make ,a fellow learn at first he thinks she's his'n but later learns he's herrn! Cut Them Down and Saw Them Up • • • WITH The New 1949 ONE-MAN LIGHT-WEIGHT PRECISION POWER CHAIN SAW THE NEW "PRECISION POWER CHAIN SAW • • • • • New non-flooding and non-swivelling carburetor. New Hi-Sparking Magneto will start easily in any weather New type air filter - eliminates sawdust, water or snow New twist grip combined ·throttle and clutch control. • All "PRECISION" Saws use the well known and reliable 2 cycle 3 ½ h.p. PRECISION air cooled motor with positive 1 ' HAS MANY IMPROVEMENTS dutch--eight types of Precision Saws manufactured, using the same motor Any attachments interchangeable at small extra cost Weight 42 to 52 lbs., depending on length of guide bar. There are now over 5,000 satisfied users of the one man light weight, Precision Power Chain Saws throughout Canada and the United States. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ... SALES - PARTS - SERVICE PIGOTT TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT LTD. ALLIS CHALMERS TRACTORS ..... GENERAL MOTORS DIESEL ENGINES. 906 Memor~al Ave. Port Arthur Phone North 120 7 �JANUARY 1949 PAGE 21 LOG BOOK SIGN IN A RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES WASHROOM CIVILIZATION COMES TO THE NORTH COUNTRY? It is reported that construction started in 1948 on jails at Nipigon, Beardmore and Hornepayne have been finished and that ja:ls in Nakina, Armstrong and Atikokan wiil be constructed in 1949. Is this a sign of civilization? 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See us for See us also for complete details about the International four-wheelers and Pole, Semi, Low-Bed Special Logging Trailers also Logging Sulkies. six-wheelers for your jobs. S. J. Hill 8 Sons Ltd. JNTERNATIONAL TRUCKS SALES and SERVICE • PORT ARTHUR and FORT WILLIAM �7DAYLOAN Unmatched for: DRYING and curing of materials, plaster, paint, concrete, etc THAWING frozer:, areas and machinery, wheels, gears, transmissions, drive chains, hoists, tractors and other equipment. PREHEATING engines and all kinds of mechanical equipment , VENTILATING and heating of manholesi tunnels, box cars, ship holds, confined areas of all kinds . SPOT HEATING of materials, workmen, machinery, storage tanks and tools. SPACE HEATING of temporary buildings. storage sheds, repair shops and building5 under construction. Construction goes on in sub-zero weather Herman Nelson Heater. mode pos~ible by Heat output - 250,000 B.T.U. per ho•:ir @ 1650 C.F.M. Fuel capacity - 16 gal. Tank Ducts Two 12" diam. X 12' long collapsible ducts Wheels - - R,;1bber tired Weight 350 lbs. They Use HERMAN NELSON HEATERS t/ HACQUOIL ,C O~ST. CO. ER & PAPER CO MENTS I QUEBEC NORTH SHORE PAPER CO. I ABITIBI POW- I ONTARIO PAPER CO.I THUNDER BAY HARBOUR IMPROVE- I PASC0L I NORTttERN PAPER MILLS I LONGLAC PULP & PAPER CO. -,_ /~R~~T LAKES PAPER co. __,.{.!;~ DRIFTWOOD LANDS & TIMBER I MARATHON . ~AP.ER :MILLS ., BROMPTON~; :ULP & PAPER co. ( ONTARIO DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS I SASKATCHEWAN POOL TERMINALS ·I COMMONWEALTH CONST. P!lW£11 EQUIPMENT f~OMPANY LIMITED 115 N. CUMBERLAND ST. PORT ARTHUR, ONT. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Log Book - Timber Operators' Association Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1949JanLogBook Title A name given to the resource Log Book - January 1949 Subject The topic of the resource Forest Products Industry Description An account of the resource Log Book, published by the Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association. January 1949. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949-01 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared with permission of the Ontario Forest Industries Association Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/d2dcb80643ff4817c2c7653563686ff5.pdf 170c26767ef01c344ef16cb10e242190 PDF Text Text �) LOG BOOK PAGE 2 OCT9'8ER, l 948 O I / SERVINQ THE TIMBER INDUSTRY IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO • Representing= WRIGHTS' CANADIAN ROPES LIMITED PRENCO (AEROQUIP HIGH PRESSURE HOSE WITH REUSABLE COUPLINGS INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED DROTT MANUFACTURING CORPORATION LOMBARD GOVERNOR CORPORATION W. D. BEATH & SON LIMITED CANADIAN MIXERMOBILE COMPANY LIMITED NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS LIMITED THE FRANK G. HOUGH CO. CONSOLI DATED DIESEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION READY POWER COMPANY DOMINION HOIST & SHOVEL COMPANY LIMITED JEFFREY MANUFACTURING CO. LIMITED J. D. ADAMS LIMITED PACIFIC CAR AND FOUNDRY CO. JIFFY HYDRAULIC LUBRICATORS at TWIN CITY INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT LTD. LOGGING - INDUSTRIAL - CONSTRUCTION - MUNICIPAL & MlNING EQUIPMENT OFFICES AND SHOPS - 915 MEMORIAL AVE. PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO an . I,, �OCTOBER, 1948 LOG BOOK THUNDER BAY TIMBER OPERAT Congratulations H. H. STYFFE .................................... . A. J. AUDEN ............................. W B. 1e,~ . ~4;. MOS ON\l \ (;c)t'\ o\ THE ~ •ASSOCI Once again before you and it is hoped you will obtain valuable and interesting information from its contents. The last issue featured "Fire Prevention". Since that time the devastating fires of early summer have been brought under control and extinguished. The damage resulting from these serious outbreaks has not yet been finally established but it is known the final loss wi II reach stupendous figures in dollars and cents. Let us not be lulled into a false sense of security during periods of low hazard-it is up to each and everyone of us to be ever alert and to see to it that our systems ot Fire Prevention and Protection· are brought up to the highest possible standard The feature of this issue of the "Log Book" could well be the settlement of the Labor Agreement for 1948-49. It is to the credit of both the Operators and Union representatives that by "collective bargainjng" and peaceful negotiation a mutually satisfactor~· agreement for the coming year was reached The discussions prior to settlement took place over a long period of time and while it must be admitted that there are still imperfections from the standpoint of either side, both parties have gone a long way towards an ultimately model agreement. It must be remembered however that any such agreement must jlways have foremost the best interests of the men compatible with the best interests of the industry as a whole. We have either reached or passed the high point of the ability of the Industry to absorb the high cost of raw materials. It would be wise therefore to bear in mind that it will be much better to attempt to keep the entire industry on an "even keel' for a long term rather than to push costs to the point where the industry could be priced out of business. Full production on the part of everyone is the answer to high earnings and profits for all. So with the commencement of a new logging season the "Log Book" wishes you every success for the 1948-49 operating year H. H. "Bert" STYFFE This booklet is published as a medium of exchanging information and of recording events of interest in the woods industry in Northern Ontario. :opies are mailed to al I key personnel and to all camps of member-companies as well as to other interested persons. We would appreciate receiving historical inform-· ation interesting news items or humorous incidents at any time. This is your "Log Book" put out for the benefit of the members of this association. Your comments and suggestions for further improvement are invited. PAGE 3 ! To the Port Arthur office of the Department cf Lands and Forests for the excellent display and entertainment provided at the local exhibition in the interests ot conservation both to the forests and wild life The Port Arthur office has staged an active forest ire prevention campaign in the local press and over the local radio, and local officers ore to be congratulated on this work. Results of money spent on advertising are intangible but it is felt that the present program of the deportment in this connection could be considerably enlarged for next year. Education of the public at large, prevention of forest fires and conservation are still vital necessities and while a start has been made in a small way, further efforts are needed. Under the present budget system of the Department of Lands and Forests .it is a difficult task to forecast what will be done in. this connection next year. Funds for next year's activities will not be assured until after the next budget comes down in 1949. From a business view point, this is a serious handicap in planning a campaign of this sort and it is too bod that funds cannot be appropriated now for 1949 activities. The whole forest fire picture from prevention, suppression and education to a review of actual experiences of the '48 season should be thoroughly gone into early this winter and plans made as soon as possible to plan the bottle for next year. Support Your Community Chest Each year in the different localities a c0mmunity chest or other charitable drives are held. In the post years these drives have been supported very generously by the men in the camps and it is hoped that drives in the coming season will be likewise supported. The Port Arthur Community Chest Incorporated and the Fort Wi 11 iam Community Chest Incorporated will be making an appeal for funds to cover operating deficits of affiliated agencies doing social and welfare work in the cities and surrounding communities. Many of the agencies supported give services to outlyng districts and this is especially true of the Children's Aid Society, The Canadian Institute for The Blind and in Port Arthur the Old Folk's Home. The Chest is supervised by a board who give their services absolutely free. Specialsts in finance, business relations, labour and many other fields give voluntary service. Organized labour is fully behind the chest movement and the Lumber and Sawmill Worker's Union have supported and will support this campaign to their utmost. • The budgets for the Chest are very carefully made up. The absolute minimum required in Port Arthur is $41,000.00 and in Fort William $33,500.00 The 1948 campaign opens on October 18th and runs for a period of three weeks. To be successful the full co-operation and wholehearted support of every member of the communities in North Western Ontario is necessar'y As last year the timber comps will be canvassed and literature forms, etc., will be sent out to the camps and volunteer workers will collect donations. The· support of each and every person is solicited. l n other communities as wel I as the Lokehead, your financial support in such worthy campaigns is requested. �LOG SOOK PAGE 4 Timber Inventories From Aerial Photographs By John M. Robinson Chief Forester, Photographic Survey Co. Ltd. During the 1948 summer season, Photographic Survey Company Limited of Toronto: 1has complete_d three significant contracts with North-Western Ontario timber operators which should go a long way toward establishing the fact that successful forest inventories can be carried out quickly, accurately and economically through the proper use of air photographs, supplemented by field checking. The largest of these jobs was done for the J. A. Mathieu Lumber Company at Quetico Park and involved photographing 1000 square miles of limits, the preparation of base maps, and the taking of _a cor:r,plete type and volume inventory of the standing t1mb~r. Photography, both vertical and tri-camera, was done in the spring, and a field party carried out ground_ ~hecks in July. The making of maps arid th_e compilin~ of inventory data was done in Photographic Survey Company1s laboratories The other two contracts were carried out using aerial photos which Photographic Survey had al ready taken in the course of its five-year survey of 125,000 square miles of Northerri Ontario for the provincial Department of Lands and Forests. A det?i led inventory of 81 square miles in Alderson Township near Oba was prepared for the Newaygo Timber Company of Port Arthur and 135 square miles near Cochrane were done for the Driftwood Lands and Timber Company of Sault Ste. Marie. On both of these jobs, ground checking parties from Photographic Survey Company did the necessary ground checking to assure the accuracy o-f information taken from the photographs. Other work done this summer which is of interest to Ontario timber operators includes special photo coverage of 5000 square miles of the territory in the burned-over area around Missisagi for the Department of Lands and Forests, for the purpose of assessing the damage and planning whatever salvage is possi?le. 1948 also marks the third year of progress on the fiveyear task of photographing and mapping 125,000 square mi ies of wooded areas for the same government department At the present time, Photographic Survey Company is unique in offering a complete reco_nn?1ssan_ce service to Canadian timber operators. This includes flying and photography (in cases w_here suita~le coverage does not already exist,) expert interpretation of the photos by a specially trained staff of foresters., the OCTOBER, 1 948 preparation of base maps, the transference of inventory information to the maps, the preparation of contoured maps (or even topographical models) which aid greatly in planning cutting operations, camp locations etc. The School Comes To The Bush - by E. V. ROSS During the past year the Timber operators of North-West Ontario have done much to make the newcomers from Europe feel at home in Canada. In fact it has been suggested that the name "Displaced Person" be changed to "Placed Person." In almost all cases the new-comers have adapted themselves well. A large number have completed their ten month contracts and proceeded "on holidays" with confidence. Many plan to return to the bush this winter. It is of interest to note that the instructing of these men has been carried on by clerks, cooks, timekeepers and other busy staff members of the various camps. Much credit for the "Placing" of new-comers is due these volunteer instructors. It is hoped that in this coming season more camp personnel will realize the importance of the citizenship work and lend assistance. Books and supervision of studies were supplied Community Programmes, a branch of the Ontario De partment of Education Community Programmes is at present making plans for further courses this year. Instruction will be given whenever the request is made, providing instructors can be tound. Courses in English, Citizenship, ana other desired subjects will be given. These courses will be supplemented with films supplied through co-operation with the National Film Board and the Thunder Bay Film Library. Any company or camp desiring information help in setting up courses should contact. E. V. Ross, District Supervisor. Community Programmes, 400 Catherine Street. Fort William, Ontario This issue of the "Log Book" is the fourth issue this year. ·We are pleased to have received the splendid support of our advertisers. KEEP THE FORESTS GREEN THEY'LL KEEP CANADA OUT OF THE RED LIFT IT - TRY IT - BlJY IT --- THE NEW IIORNET POWER SAW WEIGHT (16" CUTTING BAR) 30 LBS.~ (NO TAX) $239.00 Timbermen are amazed at the power, performance, speed, and ability of the new Hornet Model DJ On_e-man Pow!!r S~w. The 111ac_h!ne i s well balanced, enclosed, with finger-tip control. The blade swivels to allow sa"!in~ at any angle wit~ the _engine 1n upright position nd power is sufficient to allow up to a 4' cutting bar. The Hornet features the built-in ma~neto supplying high voltage at . low RPM for easy starting in any weather; automatic chain oiling,. muffler,. air filter, etc. Pulp ~nd timber men want and demand a hght, compact, powertul, economic machine-and the Hornet 1s the answer. See it at our warehouse! Vietor Allles & Co. Limited ' 111 S. ALGOMA ST (G. McCormack, Branch Manager.) PORT ARTHUR �LOG BOOK OCTOBER, 1948 A 1948 (BAD) PAGE 5 RECORD YEAR STILL AHEAD OF 1947 UP TO AUGUST 31, 1948 UP TO AUGUST 31, 1947 No. of fires Acreage Port Aithur Geraldton 117 61 42,072 acres 14,963 1h Kenora Sioux Lookout rort Frances 80 127 40 4836.25 31258.25 530.66 40 97 24 529.78 2206.73 18 00 39 26 5604.25 4086.08 3750.00 27 104 14750.40 3955.00 {Up to Sept. 15, 1948) 322,827 33 25,022 24 1,874 120 295,211 18'.L 20,214 238 27 42 84 132 136 5,676 424 3J6 l 4 5,311 5,250 District Kopuskasing Cochrane Timiskaming (New District Organized in 1948) Chaplea1.. Gogama North Bay Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury _ No. _ _of_fires _ _ _ _ _ _ _A_c_re_ag_e_ _ 107 20 II 64 5182 4411 acres II TAKE EVERY PRECAUTION BETWEEN NOW AND FIRST SNOW! THERE WERE 210 FIRES IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, 1947 Nipigon Memorial Hospital To Open In Oct. The opening of the Nipigon Memorial Hospital, which is being erected by the National Red Cross, the Ontario Provincial Government and Nipigon area residents will probably take place late in October. The finances are being provided on an equal basis by the three parties concerned and of Nipigon's share of $60,000, $35,000 has been raised by public donations. Every contribution to this building fund will be appreciated. This hospital will be of great service to not only residents of Nipigon, but also to the peopie of the surrounding teHitory. It will also relieve the Lakehead Hospitals to a certain extent P.M. WQQDBOSS- One Man Power Chain Saw 4 HORSE POWER 35 LBSe DEPENDABLE--FULLY PROVEN More than 10,000 manufactured and sold in less than three years-A record no other Canadian make can approach. ALSO INQUIRE ABOUT THE P.M. ELECTROBOSS-ONE MAN ELECTRIC CHAIN SAW110 & 220 VOL TS, 28 LBS. Blair Equipment Ltd. HEAD OFFICE - Ottawa, Ont. ,____ 2_1s_B_A_Y_ST_.~_Po_R_T_A_R_T_H_u_R _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _K_E_N_o_R_A_,_o_N_T_._K_A_N_E~_M_A_R_R_LT_D_._ _ J �7 PAGE 6 LOG BOOK Growth and Regeneration Study Bromptoo Pulp &Paper Co. Ltd. Nipigon OCTOBER, 1948 Poplar Sinkage Experiment Conducted By Long Lac Pulp &Paper Company Ltd., at. Camp No. 21 By DR. STEVENS By G. L. PUTTOCK This summer the Brompton Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., Nipigon, has taken advantage of the offer of co-operation from the Dominion Forest Service in establishing permanent plots for growth study purposes. About 150 plots have been established, mostly in the younger stands, and it is planned to continue this work next year. Plots are to be remeasured in five years and possibly again in l O years. Mr. Bedell, of the Dominion Forest Service, visited us the first part of July, looking over our stands ano checking on the actual technique of laying and measuring the plots. The work was carried out by forestry students under the. direct supervision of Dan Pickard, our Chief of Surveys. The tally forms were supplied by the D. F. S. The Service will also help in the compilation of the data and the development of stand density yield curves . Mr. Bedell suggested that the various companies in this disfrict who are doing growth study work could perhaps pool their information and so reduce the number of plots required by each company , The D. F. S. would probably then be quite willing to draw up yield curves for each basic type in each of the forest areas (according to Halliday's Forest Classification) found in this district. This has been suggested to several companies and it is hoped to have a meeting shortly to discuss the matter. A regeneration swvey was also carried out on a small scale on our limits. The results will be tied in to the findings of similiar surveys conducted by the Department of Lands and Forests in Northwestern Ont. With the increasing demand for poplar as a ra product for pulp and paper mills the Woodlands Div sions are confronted with the problem of delivering this species most economically. As driving pulpwood direct-· ly to the mill, wherever possible, is the cheapest known method to date, the question then arises whether or not the financial loss through sinkage outweighs the cost of alternate methods ·of deliver, Available information, from sinkage experiments, and experience, indicates that such loss of winter cut poplar makes it impracticable and uneconomical to drive this species. However poplar is becoming such on important phase of our operation that it was deemed advisable to conduct a sinkage experiment that would simulate the actual operating conditions encountered, were this wood being delivered to the mill Quantities of rough poplar were cut during December 1947, January, February, .and March, 1948. After each cutting period the -wood was placed on an ice landing and encircled with a boom. Each piecfnwas numberecfby means of a metal tag and a complet~record mode at the ·end of each month to determine the si nkage loss. • The results to July 31st, 1948 ore recorded on the following ·page and are by no means complete. Similar sinkage experiments ore underway with 16' winter cut poplar and 8' and 16' leng~hs of green jackpine results of which will be available at an early date TIMBER PRODUCERS EQUIPMENT PULP, LOGGING, SAWMILL AND WOODWORKING MACHINERY 4131 PHONE LAKESIDE 1929 REGENT ST. DELBERT L. LaFLEUR DULUTH 4, MINN. MACK TONGS & GRAPPLERS FOR HANDLING LOGS, RAILROAD TIES, PULP AND OTHER TIMBER PRODUCTS . Meck Log and Tie Tongs r • Mack Pulpwood Grapplers Superior LIDGERWOOD Mulldy DIESEL AND GASOLINE POWERED EQUIPMENT SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR THE LOGGING AND PULPWOOD INDUSTRY. �OCTOBER, 1948 LOG BOOK PAGE 7 LONGLAC PULP AND PAPER COMPANY LIMITED Department Woodlands Longlac, Ontario 8' ROUGH POPLAR SINKAGE EXPERIMENT Date Cut No. F'cs Cubic Content Date Watered May 31st Cubic Content Pcs % June 30th Cubic Content Pcs % Pcs July 31st Cubic Content % Dec. 19/47 134 289.41 May 5/48 11 22.58 7.80 25 46.87 16.20 4.5 82.88 Jan. 16/48 124 375.54 May 5/48 14 31.08 8.28 22 50.72 13.51 42 113.37 30.19 Feb. 19/48 149 530.52 May 5/48 19 58.82 11.09 36 105.02 19.80 58 l 70.70 32.18 Mar. 20/48 111 266. 17 May 5/48 9 15.16 5.70 21 36.25 13.62 33 65.60 24.65 28.64 CLASSIFICATION OF SUNKEN LOGS Date Cut Butt Dec. Ma, T,op Middle 7 Jan. 3 Feb. 2 8 11 Mar 3 Butt Total June Top Middle Total Butt July Middle Top 11 3 11 11 25 3 14 4 11 7 22 8 6 19 7 17 12 36 11 9 2 10 9 21 2 15 3 5 ALUMINUM PIKE POLES At the Jackladders · of the Abitibi Power & Paper Company Limited, at the Head of the Lakes, they are using new aluminum pike poles these days. These poles are much lighter than the wooden handled type and float on top of the water. It has been suggested that these· ·poles be painted before used. 8 21 16 45 23 11 42 29 18 58 16 33 The pioneers thought trees were something to clear off the land, burn in the fireplace, use for cabins and split into fence roils. You con still do those things with trees, but you con also make paper, plastics, sugar, chemicals, plywood, textiles and a list of other new products as long as your arm. Dominion Wire Rope &Cable Co. Ltd. Manufacturers of All Grades & Sta1ndard Construction Steel .Wir~ Ropes & Strands PRE-FORMED & NON PRE-FORMED d'JeaiU11,l11,9 -- WIRE ROPES for the PAPER, TIMBER, & LOGGING INDUSTRIES for HIGH ·LINES, CONVEYORS, SCRAPERS, CRANES, WARPING TUGS GENERAL PURPOS.E ROPES • We Carry A Complete Stock of Wire Rope Fittings Head office ·& works 1'!5 St. Joseph Street LACHINE, QUE. Total Branch office 170 Bay Street TORONTO, ONT. NORTHLAND MACHINERY SUPPLY CO. LTD. FORT WILLIAM, ONT. �OCTOBER, 1 94 8 LOG BOOK PAGE 8 HOW A TREE GROWS -THE FOREST COMMUNITYA forest is far more than a mere group of trees. It is a highly organized community of plants and animals living in close association and in varying degrees of interdependence. The law of life in the forest is survival ot the fittest, and the competition tor existence is keen. The forest itself is beautful and useful and has played a vital part in the development of the h~man race - HOW A TREE LIVES Trees are woody plants, growing from the ground usually with a single stem. They are the largest members of the plant world, ranging in height from 20 to 300 feet or more, according to species and conditions of growth. Trees may be said to consist of three parts: t 1) The roots, which hold the tree in place and take up from the soil, water and certain mineral substances needed in the tree's growth; (2) the trunk or stem, which supports the crown and supplies it with water and food trom the roots; and (3) the crown, which has much to do with the life of a tree, for in this port take place the most important processes in the digestion of its food and the reproduction of the tree. (Illustration on next page.) The materials upon which a tree feeds are derived from the soil and from the air. Those from the soil are collected by the roots which extend down into the ground. At the ends of the roots and rootlets are countless root hairs reaching out between particles of soil for water and the various substances which it holds in solution. The water and food materials thus collected move upward through numerous channels in the roots, trunk, and branches to the leaves The leaves serve as factories where the foods necessary for the tree's growth are manufactured. This toad making takes place in numberless tiny ceiis of the le~f where by aid of chlorophyll bodies and the action of sunlight, the carbonic acid gas taken from the air is broken up into its elements, oxygen and carbon. While the oxygen is returned to the air, the carbon, still through the action of sunlight and chlorophyll, is combined with the oxygen and hydrogen of the water with the roots, forming new chemical compounds . in which nitrogen and various earthy substances from the water are present. Thus the row food materials which reach the tree through the roots and the leaves are digested in the leaves somewhat as food is digested in the human body. They are then sent to all living parts of the roots, stem, and crown, where they are either used at once in growth or stored away for later use Maize Like all other plants and like animals, trees breathe. This breathing is done through the leaves and through tiny openings in the bark called lenticels. The amount of water taken up by the roots 1s usually very much larger than is required in the chemical processes which go in the leaves. There is thus a surplus of water which cannot be held in the leaves 1 bu must make way for fresh supplies carrying the mineral constituents necessary to the tree's growth. The tree rids itself ot this unused water by a process known as transpiration, which is the evaporation of water from all parts of the tree above ground, but principally from the leaves. In this way trees give off great quantities of water vapor, which tends to keep the air in the forests humid and favorable to growth HOW A TREE GROWS Most trees grow in height and spread of branches by sending out shoots formed by the development of new wood cells. The growth in height each year is made at the terminal bud of the main stem or stems. The "candles'' cf the pines are showy evidences of this new growth A tree grows in thickness or girth through the addition each year of a coat of new wood cells. The layer of wood thus developed is known as an annua -, ring, which, after it is once formed, does not change in size or place during the life of the tree. The annual rings as a rule may be clearly seen on a cross section of the tree trunk. In the center is the pith. Around the pith is the ring formed the first year; around the first year's growth is the ring formed the the second year, and so on. The wood nearest the bark is often lighter than that in the center. This lighter wood is known as the sapwood, because it is the living wood through which the water taken up by the roots passes on its way to the crown. After it has served for a number of years carrying on these life processes, the sapwood graduol ly changes to heartwood. Through infiltration of chemical substance and certain changes in the character of the cell walls, the wood be- · comes darker in color and wholly lifeless. The one function of the ~e?rtwood is mechanical; it serves onl , to support the I1vmg parts of the tree. This is whv hollow trees may still flourish and bear fruit. • The cells between the last layer of sapwood and the bark make up what is known as the cambium layer. It is here that new growth tokes place. The inner side of the cambium layer forms new wood and the outer side bark. In addition to the true cambium which forms both wood and bark, there is another ca~~ bium w~ich makes the outer corky bark and nothing else. Like the true cambium, this cork cambium may encase the whole tree, or it may form little sporate films eochtane ol/a11,Jw.a'U!, 'l,fou11, olleaJF,de11,4 l,M . .. LUMBERMEN'S - CAMPER'S - HOUSEHOLD & MINER'S SUPPLIES See Our Large Stock of Hunting Supplies FOR ALL YOUR HARDWARE - SHOP AT COCHRANE BARDW ARE (PORT ARTHUR) LIMITED PORT ARTHUR PHONE 200 ONTARIO �OCTOBER, 1 948 I LOG BOOK HOW A T EE GROWS Trees increase each year in height and spread of branches by adding on o new arowth of twigs. Light and heat ore required by the leaves in ·the preparation of food 11btoined from the air and soil. The leaves give off moisture by transpiration. Heortwood (inoctive) gives strength. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Sapwood (xylem) carries sap from root to leoves·-----;lf;• TRUNK Inner bark (phloem} carries food mode in the leaves down to the branches, trunk, and roots·-----------➔ The seeds of many trees are winged and are easily scattered by the wind . The maples, and the American elm, are among those that belong in this class. The lighter seeds, like those of the elm, may be borne long distances. The seeds of the maples, liowever, are comparatively heavy for fliers and consequently do not get very far from the parent tree. Heavier seeds, such as the nuts and acorns, may be carried away from the parent tree by birds and smal 1 animals which feed upon them. or ,•· "4 s t. Root ho;,s tok, op ~ o t e r containing small quantity of miner~ls in solution. ,.,. r Trees, like many other plants. bear flowers ord reproduce by means of seed. When the tree enters on its long winter rest, it has its next year's buds already formed. With the coming of spring, these bud·; expand and grow until they finally open into flowers or leaves. Some trees, as the elm and red maple, blossom and set fruit before the leaves open. The ousy willow and alder catkins burst forth before the frost is fairiy out of the ground. Other trees wait until thei: leaves are partly grown before producing their blossoms, while still others, such os the chestnut and basswood, do not flower . until early summer. Some trees mature their seeds rapidly and scatter them in the growing season. This gives the seedlings a long summer for their first season's growth. Others, such as the nut trees, slowly prepare their seeds for fall sowing. The members of the red -oak group and many of the cone-b~aring trees take 2 yeo:-s to matu: e their seed crops. Cambium (fayer of cells where growth in diameter occurs) builds tissues-wood inside and bark outside. - - - - -Dll . in the bark. In either case it dies from time to time,. and is re-formed nearer the wood. Most of the cone-bee: ing trees, such as the pines, spruces, and firs, also _blossom in the early spring. The staminate (male) and pistillate (female} tlowers are usually found on the same tree, and their color varies in the different sr,ecies from yellow and orange to shades of pink, rose, or purple. The pines, especially, produce large quantities of pollen which is scattered by the wind. · Geologically, the conifers are very old, being contemporary with the plant growth from which the coal deposits of today were formed. They still retain the simplicity of floral structure which marked the vegitation of those early times. CROWN 10n The buds, root tips, and cambium layer ore the growing ports. The tree tal:es in oxygen over its entire surface through breathing pares on leaves, twigs, branches, trunk,ond roots. Most trees provide great quantities of seed. but when the seeds have fallen from the trees their fate becomes a matter of chance, and out of thousands perhaps only one will take root where it can grow to be a tree and in its turn bear seed. COURTESY LAKE ST ATES TIMBER DIGEST I\ COURTESY TREES FOR TOMORROW INC. ONE TREE CAN MAKE A MILLION MATCHESr ONE MATCH CAN DESTROY A MILLION TREES! ROY GIBBON AGENCIES C DISSTON SAWS & KN IVES. o GOODYEAR INDUSTRIAL RUBBER PRODUCTS. • FLEXROCK MAINTENANCE & CONCRETE SPECIALTIE~. • • FORANO TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT. e VIKING PUMPS. • PHONE N. 740 PAGE 9 ROSS CARRIERS & STACKERS. PORT ARTHUR, ONT. 45A CUMBERLAND ST. S. �PAGE 10 LOG BOOK HOR SE SENSE If you work for a man, in Heaven's narr.e work for him. If he pays wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him, speak well of him, and stand by him, and stand by the instituti on he represents. Yes, if I worked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of his time, but all of his time . i would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyd:lty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparge, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as you are part of an institution do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution - not that - but when you disparge the concern of which you dre a part, you disparge yourself, and don't forget -- "I forgot" won't do in business. ELBERT HUBBARD He serves most, who serves b est . RECENT UNION AGREEMENT Article I- General Pu,pose The general purposf.: cf this agreement is to secure forthe Company and the Union the full benefits of orderly and legal collective bargaining, and to ensure to the utmost extent possible the sdfety and physical welfare of the employees, economy of operation, quality and quantity of output, and protection of property. This Agreement, moreover, seeks to provide for fair and peaceful adjustments ot all disputes that may arise between the parties. It is recognized as a duty of the parties hereto and of oil emiJloyees to co-operate fully, individually and collectively, for the advancement of the conditions set forth herein. Article 11-PeriodThe Company and the Union agree one with the other that they will abide by the .A.rticles of Agreement from the date of signature to August 31st, 1949, inclusive, and from year to year thereafter unless either party desires to change or terminate the Agreement, in which case the party desiring the change or termim.tion shall notify the other party in writing sixty days prior to September l st, of that particular year that such is its desire. Either party opening the Agreement in the manner provided obove shall notify the other party in writing as to the changes desired. Article 111- RecognitionThe Company recognizes the Union as the sole collective bargaining agency tor those employees specified in Article IV for the purpose of collectiv.e bargaining with respect to wages and working conditions for the period this Agreement remains in force and effect Article IV- JurisdictionThe jurisdiction of the Unior, shall pertain to the wood~ operations of the CoIT'pany and shall cover only those job classifications included in the attached Schedule "A" forming a ptJrt of this Agreement, plus any new job classifications which ma y be added to this Schedule by agreement between the parties hereto. lt is agreed that company operations shall not be interrupted ci,s the result of any jurisdictional dispute that may arise between the Union and any other union affiliated with the American Federation of Labour. Questions of jurisdiction she.II conform -:-o the regulations covering such matters as fixed by the American Federation of labour and the Company will not be asked to oct upon any matters of jurisdiction between organizations of the American Federaticn of Labour. Article V- Union MembershipThe Union agrees that it will encourage union members to refrain from moving from camp to camp and from c~mpany to company. The Company agrees that it is in favour of its employees covered by this Agreement becoming members of the Union and will facilitate Union membership solicitation as hereinafter provided. If an individual employee, who is a member of the Union or wishes to become a member, so desires, the Compc.1ny agrees that it will, on his behalf and upon his writt~n request, pay union fees from monies due him from time to time to the Union during the terms of his employment in each camp. This authority for deductions from monies earned by the employee must be authorized by him in writing and may be revoked by him if he so wishes. Remittances of all deductions shall be sent to the local Union each month accompanied by itemized lists of names and amounts by camps. Representatives carrying proper credentials shall have the right tc visit all operations in connection with Union business as it pertains to this Agreement. Credentials carried by Union representatives shdll consist of a Certificate of Authority signed oy the General Representative of the Union, along with an authority signed by the President and Secretary of the local Union concern ea. The local Union shall furnish the Company with a li3t of local officers and representatives as of September l st, l 948, and shall amend th:s list promptly as changes occur. OCTOBER, 1948 Article VI-Vacations With PayIn consideration of the provisions of the Hours of Work and Vacations with Pay Act of Ontario. all employees covered by this Agreement shall receive, in lieu of vacations with pay, vacation credits on the following basis: The vacation allowance for each employee covered by this Agreement shall be two (2) percent of his gros;; earnings during his period ~of employment. This shall be paid to each employee in the torm of Vacation with Pay Credit Stamps to be affixed by the employer in the employee's Vacation with Pay stamp book. Vacations with Pay stamp books shall be made available by employer securing same from the Industry and Labour Board Ontario and supplying same to the employee at cost. In order to qualify for vacation credits eal=h employee mu. work a minimum of seventy-five (75) days within a four month period with the same company, or, where a company has divisions, with a div1s1on of that company during each vacation year, or from July l st, this year to June 30th, next year. This time limit shall not apply in the event that work is discontinued or in the event of lay-off by the employer. If an employee moves from one employer to another during the vacation year, he shall not be entitled to vacation credi+-s until after seventy-five (7 5) days of work within a four month period with the new employer. i Article VII- Adjustme nt of GrievancesThe Union shall arrange for the election from its working membership at each camp by the members therein of a Union Grievance Committee of three headed by a Union Stewa,rd who shall act as spokesman for that committee. The Union shall furnish the Compa-,y promptly with a list of all Union Stewards one it shall also be the duty of the Union to notify the Compai.1y promptly whenever there is a charge •in the personnel.----- - - of these Steward~ To be elig'ble for election as Union Steward, an empk>ye-e must have been employed with the Company for at least l 5 day~. A grievance under the provisions of this Agreement is defined to be any difference between the parties or between the Company and employees covered by this Agreement as to:ll) Any matter relating to wages or working conditions covered by this Agreement. (2) Any matter involving the interpretation o, violation of any provision of this Agreemerit . _and shall be settled in the following manner and sequence; Grievances, as defined above, between employees and the Company shall be taken by the employee him- : self, or, together with the Union Steward having jurisdiction, directly to the employee's immediate supervisor fo r adpustment outside of working hours. Failing a ~atistactory adjustment within forty-eight (48) hours, ~ then , '-'--------An ( ;-the, Stage 2 - the matter shall be taken up by th~ need be 1 Camp Grievance Committee with the Logging Supe;because the intendent within ninety-six (96) hours in writing on fresh and UJ torms to be supplied by the Union. The Logging Superintendent shall make a reply in writing within a further ninety-six (96) hours. Failing a satfsfactory adjustment, then, Stage 3 - the matter shall be taken up by officers of the local Union with the Y./oods Manager of the Company, or his representative. Failing a settlement within seven (7) days, then, Stage 4 - the matter shall be referred to the General Manager of the Company, or his representative, and a Union committee accompanied by the Union's General Representative. Failing a settlement within fifteen ( l 5) days, then, Stage 5 - either pa:·ty shall, within the following fifteen ( 15) days, refer the matter to arbitration. In arbitration, the Company and the Union shall each select one man; these two shall select a third party who shall act as Chairman. This Arbitration Committee shall convene and render a decision within fifteen (15) days. Such decision shall be final and binding on both parties to this Agreement. In the event of a failure of the two (2) men selected by the respective parties to select a third party as provided above, they shall ask the Provincial Minister of Labour to appoint a third party. ~ It is understood that the function of the Arbitration mittee shall be to interpret and apply this Agreement, and !'ha r shall deal only with the specific question as submitted and shal! have no power to alter or amend this .Agreement. Sundays and holideys shall not be included in any time limits in this Article of the Agreement. A grievance arising from a claim by an employee that h. discharge or suspension was unjust and contrary to the terms of tH Agreement must be dealt with in writing by both parties through all stages. Each pa'rty ,·o this Agreement shall pay all expenses of the member of the Arbitration Board selected by it and share equally in the fees ar,d expenses of the third member of the Board. �Article V III - N o Strike - No Lockout It is agreed that all disputes shall be settled in accordance with the procedure set forth in Article VI I of this Agreement and that there shall be no strikes or lockouts during the life of this Agreement. Artic le IX - Working Conditions ( 1) All cdmps shall have single beds. (2) Pieceworkers shall be provided with scale slips after each scale. The Company agrees that the wood shall be scaled as expeditiously as possiblE The charge for board and lodging shall be $1.65 per calendar day. \4) All tools will be made available by the Company to pieceworkers and others. All hand tools will be charged to the employee's account at the time of issue. Full credit will be given for all tools returned. All tools not returned will be charged for in full. Worn out or broken tools will be replaced with seviceable too:s free of charge, provided tho'!- worn out or broken tools are returned. In the case of broken sow blades, the Company agrees to supply free of charge a maximum of one replacement during each monthly period. (5) The Company agrees to maintain a policy of good conditions in respect to cleanliness, sanita•·ion, and health. The Company recognizes that clean bedding, laundry service, and health inspection are important factors. (6) The Company agrees to discuss with the Union in each particular operation ways and means of improving conditions for all employees covered by this Agreement. 7) It is conside:·ed by both parties to this Agreement that the general improvements in working conditions in this great industry during the past few years, despite varying circumstances, --------/ have been highly beneficial and should contin:.ie ! and shall be facilitated by both parties to this ! Agreement. Article X - Wages . Schedule "A" is the wage schedule as agreed upon between the Union and the Company and is attached • hereto and is a part of t his Agreement. - • ---s c ll that eve ., often al remains as date as ever. PAGE l l LOG BOOK OCTOBER, l 948 Article XI - Hours of Work I ( 1) This clause applies to day workers only (2) The standard work week shall consist of fortyeight (48) hours. (3) The standard work day shall consist of eight (8) hours per day. (4) Walking distance up to one and one-half miles each way or riding time up to to one-half hour each way shall not be included in the above eight (8) hour day and forty-eight (48) hour week. (5) Any time worked in excess of eight (8) hours per day or forty-eight (48) hours per week shall be pa1d for at the regular rate of pay. (6) The following classifications ore exceptions to the eight (8 l hour day and forty-eight (48) hour week. {a) (b) Cooks Cookees Chore boys (d) (e) Watchman Barn bosses (c) (f) Rdftsmen, Inland Waters Logmen. :n It is also understood that during the following seasonal periods men will work as many hours during the week as may be necessary to do the work in hand: (a) Driving season (b) Ice and snow hauling season Arti cle XI I - Seniority In lay-offs and in promotions length of service sho II receive due consideration. When labour is required, local workers experienced in the jobs to be filled shall be given hiring preference. Nothing herein shall be deemed to restrict the Company's right to recognize merit and ability, to retain key workers, and to generally promote the efficiency of operations. Sickness or injury disabling on employee for work during any seo~on shall not alter his seniority rights for that season. SCHEDULE II A" $5.50 Aporentices ... .. . ..... . 6.30 ......... $5.75 Cookees 7.70 - 9.10 Cooks ......... . .. 7.15 Bull Cooks or Chore Boys 6.25 - ,mp Watchl'l"f]n . . . ...... . ............................. . 7.70 ,rn Boss - 1 0 or more horses .. . ............. . 7.35 Less than 1 0 horses 6.55 Night Watchman .. .... . 6.25 Dom and Storage Ground Watchman 7.15 General Labourer . ...................... . 7.35 Loaders and Unloaders . . ....... . 7.45 $kidders and Rollers . .. . . . 7.35 T eomsters - Less than four horses toting 7.65 Four horses or more toting 7.70 Hauling and Loading Blacksmiths 7.70 - 910 Handymen 7.45 - 8 45 Mechanics 7.70 - 9.40 Camp and Dam Construction Workers ............................ .. 7.15 - 8.25 Tractor Drivers - Portaging .................................... . 7.40 - 8.45 Break Roads . .................................... . 7.40 - 8.45 Hauling Trains ... .................................... .. 745 - 8.45 Forwarding from strips .......................... . 7.35 - 8.45 Using scrapers, Graders ...................... .. 8.05 - 9.40 Truck D: ivers - Hauling Trains, Trailers, etc. 7.40 - 8.45. Portaging, Hauling on body 7.40 - 8.00 Four-Wheel Drive ........................... . 8.05 9.40 Compressor Operator ... ...... .. ................................... .. 8.30 - 8.85Jackhammer Dri I lers .............. ..................... ....... ......................... . 7.50, Hand D1 illers . ....................... ...... . ............ ..... .. .. ................... . 7.3.5 River Drivers - Watering Wood on Drive ........................ .. 7.75 Boatmen, Bow and Stern ..................... . 8.05 Outboard Motor Operators on Drive ... . ... . .................... .. 8.05 Sorters, Sluicers, Jacklodder Feeders .. ........................... .. 7 35 Raftsmen, Inland Waters Logmen ........ . ... ..................... . 8.25 Storage Ground Logmen ..... ... .. ........... . . .. .. .................... .. 7.75 Tonk Men Icing Roods ....................... .. 7.40 Pump Men for Water Pump 7.40 Men Working on Jammer 7.40 Top Loaders on Jammer ..................... .... .......... .. 7.65 Sow Filers ..................................... .. 7.40 - 8.45 Powder Men .............................................. .............. . 7.70 HANDICAPPED WORKERS A special rate may be established, by agreement betweP.n the --Company and the Union, for aged and handicapp ed workers. APPRENTICES Employees coming into woods operations for the first time shall receive the apprentice rate until able to do the job, with a maximum period of four weeks in the case of those learning to cut skid, or pile pulpwood, and two weeks in the case of all other occupations · except general labour. In the case of promotion from one classification to another, on employee shall r€Cejve his current rote of pay until he hos learned to do his new job before receiving an increase in pay providing, however, that this shall be <lone within the above mentioned time limits. JOB CLASSIFICATION Rote per Cutting Pulpwood Single Cord SO" Rough Spruce and Balsam $4. 95 50" Peeled Soruce and Balsam 7.45 50" Rough iackpine 4.35 50" Rough Poplar 3.50 50" Peeled Poplar 5.25 l 00" Rough Spruce and Balsam 4.35 100" Peeled Spruce and Balsam 6.65 l 00" Rough Jackpin€; 3.80 l 00" Peeled Poplar 4.40 Cutting Fuelwood Split . 4 ft. Poplar $3.50 cord 4 ft. Jackpinc 4.05 cord 4 ft. Birch and Tamarac. 4 .60 cord In addition to cibove, strip roads to be paid for at the rote of 1,: per foot for 7' road, and l ½c per foot for l 0' rood. Strio width shall not exceed 66'. When a man has cut and piled 75 cords of rough pulpwood or 37 cords oeeled oulowood in ar.y one comp, h~ will be paid a bon,~s ot 55 cents per cord in addition to the rates above. LOADING, HAULING AND U!\ILOADING By the same crew, loading and hauling and cnanging sleighs at spotting grounds, or where unloading is done by mechanical means, rates are for single cords: Peeled Wood Rough Wood Up to one-quarter mile haul $ .90 $1.00 Up to one-half mile haul 1.00 1.10 Up to one mile hau: l. l 0 1.25 Up to two mile haul 1.55 1.65 Up to three mile haul 1.95 2.20 When wood is unloo·ded by hand add 16c per single cord to above , ates for rough wood and 13c per sing le cord to the above rates tor pe-eled wooa. rlAULING FUELWOOD OR SKIDDING shall be paid the same rate as tcr Rough Wood. ----------------------------·-- UNION MESSAGE The new agreement in 1he woods industry covering wages and working conditions for the year 1 948-49 has just been concluden. The negotiations were the most protracted ever held, every clause, especially the working agreement was thoroughly discussed. The result is that the new agreement represents a distinct improvement over lost year, especially the clause defining griEvance procedure. It remains now for us TO 3ee to it that this machinery 1s used for the general benefit. The first thing of course is for eoch ,.md -2very one ot us to acquaint ourselves with the grievance procedure. Every question that arises con be regularly token up and dealt with, so our uninon on its oart will insist on our members and responsible peoule in the camps that the cigreement signed by us will be strictly adhered to. This will not only benefit us as individuals but increase tht' prestige of our organiza ti on. JACK QUINN Pres. L. & SM. W. U: Local 2785 �OCTOBER 1948 LOG BOOK PAGE 12 the old adage "Haste makes woste." The skilled man takes time to cut all limbs and brush within reach of his axe swing. Let's Not Be"HALF-SAFE". • • No. 3. Pulling wood from pile with hand hook, to carry to truck or sleigh; hook pulls out, or glances off knot or frozen surface of wood, and pierces knee of thigh. The skilled man knows how to use his hand hook so it will do what he wants it to, but this fellow takes neither the time nor trouble to learn the slig skill which safety demands. A~cident Figures Show That Mondo Woods Workers Haye Twice as Many Accidents as Plant Workers By Courtesy 11 THE MANDONIAN,, Thirty years ago any paper mill which had operated a year without a dea'th would feel that it had done something special in the field of safety . The present downward trend of occupational injuries ha5 been accomplished, first, by removal of physical hazard; and better ~ousekeeping, and second, by persistent education. Attitudes have changed. Instead of the fatalistic "Oh well, these hazards are part of the job, we must expect some accidents to happen," on the pa,t of b_o th management and men, the view now is "Accidents can be controlled; unsafe conditions can be removed; and employe~s can be made safety conscious by education." What hos been accomplished in industry in general, and in our Mondo mills in particular, can be done in our logging operations. No improvement in safety was ever made through any other attitude than that "Accidents can be control led, and its everyone's job to do it.' There were 233 lost time injuries in Mondo logging camps in 1947, against 101 in the mills. Disregarding the frequency rate, this is a ratio of two to one. Let's look at the record and see what we may learn from these 233 accidents. The were 1 84 of these accidents that happend to men with less than six months service with the Company. In 102 of the cases there was no tool or equipment whatever involved. More than half of the mJuries were caused by the men being struck by objects, or striking themselves with tools, like axes and hand picks. About 80% of thern were due to unsafe practices :..ind poor working methods, including ignorance of the hazards connected with the job. Depicted below ore some of the more common of the needless accidents which put woods workers in the hospital, or at least caused loss of time and earnings. These reflect the general type of cases that could have been prevented by a little intelligent planning, common sense and ordinary care. Let us review them. No. 1. Carrying wood from the strip to pile along road; slips on icy spot or stumbles on root and falls, spraining back; chest or shoulders. Being on piecework, the more he hurries, the the more he makes, he thinks. Too much haste costs him money. No. 2. Undercutting tree, axe is deflected by a limb and cuts knee, foot or shin. A sure sign of a tenderfoot; he proves No. 4. In falling, the tree hits a stump or rock and bounces sidewise or backward, striking the man who had cut it. Often en error of judgment in putting in the undercut. Worker should observe anything which the tree might strike, and place his cut so as to avoid it No. 5. Rolling wood from end of pile with hand hook, to food load onto truck or sleigh, dislodges another stick, which falls on foot. A careful man will stand in the clear, and observe the lay of the sticks on the pile. One day should be sufficient to learn to do this job safely. No. 6. Swamping of limbing tree for cutting ir.t'? short lengths, and standing on same side of trunk with limb. Axe swing carries through and cuts foot, shin or knee. Too muct1 haste to convert the tree into wages. The wise cutter stands on the opposite side and keeps the trunk between his body and the axe swing. If this is impossible, a little practice shows how .-o swing the a;xe away from the body instead of towards it. ( No. 7. Bucking sticks or logs with Swede saw and holdin the operating hand on the frame at the fastening of the blade. Blade strikes ant hole or sliver and binds, hand being forced forward along the teeth. A bad practice. Ordinary horse sens':l dictates that the hand be placed above the sow blade. No. 8. A neglected cut or abrasion; treated it himself ar:d failed to get first aid; infection followed. With the facilities available in all camps, there con be f'IO excuse for such neglect. Always report all cuts and lacerations at once to the nurse, first aid man or foremar,, and have them properly cared for. These and similar coses indicate the causes of 80 per cent of the disabling injuries to Mondo woods workers. The remedies are just as clearly indicated. They ore forethought, common sen$e and avoidance of unnecessary haste, ar.d they con and must he learned by the worker5 There is no good reason why our woods operations cannot as free of accidents as those in our mills HALF-SAFE IS NOT ENOUGH. \- - - @ �OCTOBER, l 94~ LOG BOOK PAGE 13 ADVERTISERS' NEWS NESCO NEWS MORE POWER The need for more power to handle current applications more efficiently have resulted in the expanded line ot products in the future production picture of he "Caterpillar Tractor Company" according to an . nnouncement by the Powell Equipment Company Ltd. The announcement heralded the near future manufacture of ten new "CATERPILLAR'' products geared to completion of the current expansion of manufacturing of the Company's Peoria Plant. Of special interest to loggers are the four new 11 "CATERPILLAR Diesel Engines, each of which will be available as industrial power units, electric sets and marine engines. All emphasize the "CATERPILLAR" 11 theme of a complete power packagen providing the the advantages of a single source of manufactur<=, parts and service responsibi I ity. Horsepower rating and models of the NEW ENGINES are as follows :D364 D375 267 H.P. 334 H.P. D386 D397 400 H .P. 500 H.P. Another new "CATERPILLAR" Product is the 1 ' 1DW 20 ' a four wheel tractor with a rating of 225 H.P. at full load and speed ranges up to 26 M .P.H . 1 Since the end of World War 11, "CATERP I LLAR ' has expended its line to include, ·beside the brand new items, improved and more powerful D8, D6, D4, and D2 track type tractors; the Diesel DW l O wheel type tractor straight type and angling type, hydraulic controlled bulldozers for all fine track type tractors. The production of pulp wood, due to its rapidly rising costs has been the critical concern of the pulp and paper manufacturer for some time past. A number of ideas have been put forward to increase production, several of which have been tried out. Notably among these is the Nesco slasher and loader which is no longer an experimental machine. It has fully justified the foresight of those who were instrumental in its design; capable of producting and loading over l 00 cords in an eight hour day, with not more than six personnel. This machine has eliminated the backbreaking labour with which this work was previously done. The trees are felled and the limbs trimmed off. They are then brought to the slasher with sulkies which carry a number of tree length logs at each trip according to their capacity. These logs are placed in para I lel to the powered horizontal conveyor which is an integral part of the slasher and are pulled onto the conveyor with a cross haul. The sawyer depresses a lever which puts the conveyor into motion bringing the log forward to a solidly 1 constructed stop. The 44 ' saw which is attached to a radial arm is then brought down and cuts off the the required length which is automatically elevated and loaded; the loading apron being raised and lowered hydraulically to suit . The Northern Engineering & Suppiy Company, Limited have now added hydraulic action to the saw radial arm and the tree length horizontal powered conveyor. Manual or hydraulic control is optional. THE NORTHERN ENGINEERING & SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED FORT WILLIAM (__ CANADA ONTARIO MODEL HS 2000 1948 U. CANADIAN PATENT APPLIED FOR S. PATENT- 41135-6 TREE-LENGTH SLASHER AND LOADER N£SCO EQUIPMENT ENSURERS - ECONOMICAL - SPEEDY - CONTINUOUS - OPERATION �OCTOBER, 1948 LOG BOOK PAGE 14 Lumberjack Sawing Contests At Lakehead Winter Carnival, February 1949 The Lakehead Cities of Fort William and Port Arthur will be hosts to the Northern Ontario Outfitters Association, next February. A lumber-jack sawing and chopping contest will be staged. It is planned in this connection, as a feature of the carnival. The plan is to have each company that wishes to enter a contestant hold contests in their camps and declare camp champions and by process of elimination declare a company champior. These company champions will then compet~ at the winter carnival in February. 1n this connection a committee will be appointed by the Operators' Association to draw up rules and regulations for the contest and it is planned to have a representative of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Un~on, Local 2786 as one of the judges. The following is an extract from an article by M. R. Wilson of the Canadian International Paper Company on "The Value Of Sawing Contests In Labor Relations.'· "Ordinarily there is little in average camp life to interest the worker except the daily routine of work. This, after a period tends to produce boredom and discontent, with the resultant bad effects which come from such conditions. It is a fact that the results of professional hockey games and prize fights are followed with great interest in most camps. However, in the average camp it is not possible to provide sports such as baseball, football, or hockey, and it is doubt- ful if the majority of woods workers, due to their background, could participate in such sports For these reasons other diversions must be found to satisfy the need for competitive sport, and sawing competitions are a natural. We believe that they are filling a part of that need very nicely. We have found that looking at a group of men who have w depot championships is not unlike looking at a grou of young athletes who could be candidates for a football or hockey team. They are generally young, cleancut and good living.. Such groups would be a credit to any industry Sawing contests are doing something to stimulate interests in care of tools and sawing technique. Great interest is shown in the winners' style and in the type of saw he has and how it's filed. Already as a result of our experiment we have men carrying their favourite saw blades to competitions in leather cases and they are guarded more carefully than a champ golfer would guard his favourite clubs. This care of tools and interest in technique is what we want to create, and cannot help but produce beneficial results for the industry An esprit de corps is obvious. Jobbers have been quite keen about their champions and have shown interest to the point of backing them with mone)t( Inspectors and instructors who have travelled from cam~ to camp while the contests were in progress, inform us that sawing contests and speculation as to winners was the chief topic of talk in the camps. This interest in the sawing competitions brings a possible sport right to the forest workers' back door and it is a sport in which 100 % of the employees may participate. Continued on Page 16 !Inl4oriucu,,r; . . . THE ''PARAMOUNT'' CUB PORTABLE FIRE PUMP BUILT TO LAST--BUILT TO FUNCTION CONTINUOUSLY FOR LONG PERIODS WITH LITTLE ATTENTION Equipped with automatic primer and weighing less than 70 .lbs. net, the PARAMOUNT Cub will supply water for effective fire fighting to eight close-range lines or through a mile of single hoseline WE CAN FILL YOUR ORDER NOW ALSO DISTRIBUTORS FOR Dominion Oxygen & Acetylene, Lincoln Electric Welding Rod & Accessories, Dominion Wire Rope & Cable, Dunlop Rubber Hose & Belting. Available from Fort William Stock Northland Machinery Supply Co. Ltd. 203 HARDISTY STREET FORT WILLIAM, ONT. QC {l ~ �OCTOBER, 1948 LOG BOOK _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _P_A_;:_ G.=... E ____: 15 "EUCLID" pulling 60 cords of green jackpine at Kowkash, Ont. OWNER: Nipigon Lake Timber Co., Ltd.---Operator E. Sobush. ''EUCLID'' C AGAIN WE HAVE ADVANCED WITH THE PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY IN CANADA, ILLUSTRATED BELOW IS OUR ANSWER FOR "LOAD-ON-BACK" TRACTOR-TRAILER UNIT, WITH 5TH WHEEL TYPE HOOK-UP, WITH CAPACITY ...TO HAUL 20-22 CORD LOADS, VERY STURDY CONSTRUCTION, AMPLE POWER AND SPEED ... TO ENABLE THIS UNIT TO CUT HAULING COSTS TO A MINIMUM, FOR EITHER 4-8-12-16 FT. OR TREE LENGTH WOOD. WRITE US FOR PARTICULARS C FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, WRITE PHONE OR WIRE L G. H. GODSALL EQUIPMENT. CO. LTD. TORONTO. 213 BAY STREET PORT ARTHUR, TEL N. 1786 MONTREAL PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Log Book - Timber Operators' Association Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1948OctLogBook Title A name given to the resource Log Book - October 1948 Subject The topic of the resource Forest Products Industry Description An account of the resource Log Book, published by the Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association. October 1948. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thunder Bay Timber Operators' Association Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1948-10 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared with permission of the Ontario Forest Industries Association Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/417129727c655afeaefb8c4f8bba1878.pdf 3e9a6b3e6c520e39ed357de621375d6a PDF Text Text RETURN TO FORESTRY LIBRARY Woods Division �I LOG BOOK PAGE 2 JULY, 1948 SERVING THE · TIMBER IND.USTRY IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO Famous International T. D. 24 Representing: INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED DROTT MANUFACTURING CORPORATION LOMBARD GOVERNOR CORPORATION W. D. BEATH & SON LIMITED CANADIAN MIXERMOBILE COMPANY LIMITED NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS LIMITED THE FRANK G. HOUGH CO. CONSOLIDATED DIESEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION Vi READY POWER COMPANY DOMINION HOIST & SHOVEL COMPANY LIMITED JEFFREY MANUFACTURING CO. LIMITED J. D. ADAMS LIMITED PACIFIC CAR AND FOUNDRY CO. BACYRUS-ERIE COMPANY TWIN CITY INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT LTD. LOGGING - INDUSTRIAL - .CONSTRUCTION - MUNICIPAL & MINING EQUIPMENT OFFICES AND SHOPS - 915 MEMORIAL AVE. PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO �JULY, 1948 - - -- - - -- -- - - - --=-----7 _LO _G _ B_O_O_K_ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ __ ~P~A~G~E~3 Forest Technician Course to Open THUNDER BAY TIMBER OPERATORS ASSO OFFICERS: Dr. M. W. Bartley, Principal, Lakehead Technical Institute ~Q~ ·. e-Pr ~: ~- ;~~;~E ...:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.::::::::.:·:··:::::::::::::::~:::::::::::"·":::: ..... EXECUTI J. H. H. P. -~~ MERRILL •.. _, KLINSTIVEI\ M. '911Y SecretarY. ~g~ T. "'2.V ~tis SI The Lakehead Technical '\.. ~ souTHON E\ ~ NE$ . ~, Q . ...t ' , ~"t> \ c~ • 5•• ~ ~~ Q, y flM:!l~ "~RATQfij' Asso~ ATl g,tt ~\ 0 0 ,n• J~i:9 O , <t.'T "-\.. v 0 cl by - -. ~ . ... ..::-- _ 5 Messaufl''<'0 V ~ ~'( 1948. o U ·" '( , v ~'( ~'It '('\ O At the last e~ al ~ e • g the executive and manager were pleas to r ive the complete endorsation of all membe f past and future issues of the : 'Log Book". I tr ·st each member and recipient will continue to benefit from the useful information contained therein The theme of the last issue of the "Log LBook" was "Fire Prevention." From the experiences of the past few weeks the theme was obviously well chosen. The fire hazard throughout the province has created an explosive situation with a number of serious outbursts close to home. In other parts of the province the fire losses in green timber have been nothing short of catastrophic. Only through the hard work and efforts of the var'1ous Forestry DepartmJ:?nts in cooperation with the timber companies has the situation been brought under control •• It becomes obvions, however, that the situation may again break out more seriously this year. It behooves every single agency and citezen to become more conscious than ever of the terrible danaer which confronts the No. l industry of the Province~ It occurs to me that the Tmber Operators' Assaciation as an agency can be of greater assistance than in the past in meeting the problems of prevention of serious forest fire outbreaks and their suppression. I am not prepared to say what direction such assistance should take but I would like to suggest here that every member come to the next general meeting with as many constructive ideas as possible as to how we, as an association, can -help to bring about total "Fire Prevention'· / CONGRATULATIONSTo the Marathon Paper Mills of Canada Limited, on the publication ot the Booklet "Mechanical Logg:ng for Pulpwood" Mr. H. P. Klinestiver, Mr. P. V. Lemay, the editors, the artist, the industrial firms, all who took part in the planning and publishing of this Booklet deserve great credit. This booklet marks c forward step in the woods industry and will be of great interest to other companies in planning a mechanical operation . It wi II also be of great assistance as a hand-book to the individual man. Copies may be ordered from the Marathon Paper Mills of Canada Limited, Public Utilities Building, Port Arthur at a cost of $2.00 each. STA TISTICS-N IPIGON RIVER DRIVE 1947 Institute, Port Arthur o· and ~ort William, Ontario will commence classes in 'v'f.. the f1 rst-years coures of technical forestry in September 1948 First wood sluiced over Virgin Falls - June 9, May 20, First wood sluiced over Cameron Falls - May 28, May 18, The course as presently outlined, will be of o years' duration and is planned to fit high school graduates and m(2n already employed in the forest industry for sub-professional supervisory positions in that vocvation. N orthwestern 0 ntario district is now, more than ever, the nucleus of the forest industry and all indicat1ons suggest that the area will enjoy top place in the industry for many decades. This great advance has been achieved under the guidance of a few trained and professional men who have toiled diligently with a minimum of assistance from technicians. These men -long ago realized the necessity for technical aid if the pulpwood and saw logs were to be won economicallq from our forests. They urged the establishment of a training school from which they could obtain rangers, cruisers, junior forest engineers and similar subprofessional assistants. The faculties of forestry in our universities could not meet the demand for trained personnel. The graduates from these institutions could not adequately fill the myriad of jobs with the result that unskilled employees had to be trained as well as possible under difficult conditions. A brief concerning the type of training desired for forestry technicians was presented to the departments of education and lands and forests with the result that the present coure is being offered. The brief was based on the urgent need for trained personnel to fill the gap between the professional man and the rank and file of labour. It also stated the type of men required to fill the gap and what these men must have and be able to do. The various suggestions were made bearing in mind that the students would be principaliy men from Northwestern Ontario and would, upon graduation, put their training to use in the Lake Superior region. The Department of Education, who are sponsoring the Lakehead Technical Institute, requested that a selected committee form industry in our area, be appointed to make certain that the type of training i5 adequate and desirable. This committee wi II have an active part in recommending the curriculum and choosing instructors. It has been decided that the prime object of the course is to train men in the practical phase of fores!" work and forest management, so that they wll be capable of doing supervisory work in the woods and keepi ng our forest lands productive. The student wi 11 be thoroughly educated in the theory of forestry and the practical appiication of this theory. It is the intention and onus of the Institute to provide the operating companiest with desirable employees and to provide the ambitious forest workmen ar,d desirable students with a source of training which will allow them to advance to positions of responsibility in forestry. Applications to attend this course should be submitted to the principal, Lakehead Technica Institute, Port Arthur, Ontario. Thunder Bay Timber Operators Association representatives in this committee are Messrs. P. V. Lemay, P. A. Clark and J. H. MerrilL �PAGE 4 LOG BOOK JULY, 194 "JOE BEAVER" By Ed Nofziger Hauling Pulpwood on Semi-Irailers by D. E. Graham In the Valora District of the Great Lakes Paper Company, approximately 25,000 cords of pulpwood are hauled to railhead every winter.. On this haul, sleighs were drawn by three ton trucks. During the 1945-46 season, one semi-trailer was built and a few trips made with approximately 6 cords per load. The results were very satisfactory. Twelve semi-trailers were built in the company workshop during the summer of 1946 in order to change over the Valora haul from sleighs to all semitai ler~ The past two winters, the winter rail wood has been delivered from bush jammer at the strip road to railway cars, Valora, by semi-trailerrs. A very substantial saving has been realized as compared to hauling sleighs with the same type and number of trucks. The saving has been realized from reduced ice road maintenance, sleigh maintenance, truck chains, tires and general truck maintenance. The semi-trailers were used on two summer hauls during 1947. One, a ten mile haul from Dog River, Savanne District, while the other was a four mi le haul at Martin, Gull Lake Limit. The trailers proved very satisfactory as to operating cost and reduced the number of vehicles on the road thus reducing the accident hazard The semi-trailers were built in the Company workshop to the following specifications: Deck. 24 feet divided into four pockets. Fifth Wheel Freuhauf, Serial No. 102492. Trailer Dolly Frame-8" Channel 34" by 60" ...Axle-3 l 5/ 16" Shafting r Springs 14 leaf. Standard 3 ton Ford or { CHhuckles angers Mercury Truck Parts Wheelbearings • Hubs Wheels-Budd Tires-900 by 20 Fifth Wheel mounted l 0% of the wheelbase ahead of the rear axle on any standard 3 ton truck. Valora Haul (Winter Haul) Type of Road iced road. Grade Maximum adverse grade 12~~ (Length of grade l 00 feet) Length of haul 11.35 miles Cordage hauled 26,480 cords. Average Cordage per trip 6.5 cords. Cost per mile per cord hauled 8.7 cents. Loading Bush Jammer from strip road sleigh: Unloading Jammer from semi-trailers to "You could at least give us two weeks' notice." railway cars. Dog River Haul (Summer Haul) Type of road Gravel. Grade - An adverse grade of 230 feet in three miles, maximum adverse grade at any point 5¾ Length of Haul l O miles. Cordage hauled 18,000 cords. Average cordage per trip 6.0 cords. Cost per mile per cord hauled 10.7 cents. Loading Jackladd~r from water. Unloading Crawler Crane 1cu. yd. copy., semi-trailers to railway cars. Above costs include- truck and trailer rental, drivers wages, gasoline, oil and maintenance. They do not include road cost or maintenance, loading or Lmloading of pulpwood Lecturer Covers Nipigon Dri,e for Material Mr. J. M. Humphrey of Vancouver, noted lecturer, covered "the Nipigon River from Cameron Falls to Virgin Falls to obtain material for a lecture on the pulp and paper industry in Canada. Mr. Humphrey has crossed Canada 102 times in the course of seeking facts and material for lectures but this is the first time he has stopped off in this area. Mr. Humphrey stated that his lectures are prepared and used to sell Canada to the Canadians; In other ~..vords to tell Canad·1ans what is going on in their own countr} Mr. Humphreys certainly picked out a beautiful country, with the drive crews meeting all possible natural obstacles, in which to obtain his material. �LY, 1941 . JULY, 1948 Io fz 1gerli.----------------------------------a LOG BOOK ' LOGGERS-We are pleased to announce .that a permanent branch qffice and stock room has now been established by RUSSEL-HIPWELL ENGINES LTD. OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO ,\ \ --. I at ; Corner of Bay and Johnson Streets 11 PORT ARTHUR - Phone 1592 with complete facilities for SERVICE and SALES of ee nt • ., I • • 0 \ J Cummins Engine Co1npany • Automotive, Industrial, locomotive, Marine Diesel Engines. R. D. Sheppard Company Industrial & Marine Diesel Engines--- Rnssel Brothers Limited "Steelcrafr" Logging Tugs, Barges, Launches. "Russel" Heavy Duty Gasoline Marine Engines, 10 to 40 Horsepower. Piet M. Vooges, Branch- Manager J PAGE 5 �LOG SOOK PAGE 6 Scaling Is a Profession JULY, 1948 ~ the! r hands. Both buyers and sellers have been equally guilty of this pratice Times are1 changing, however, and scaling now is regarded as a profession. Is taught by competent instructors 1n established Forestry and Wood in Ranger schools. The big theme stressed by scaling w 1 instructors is fairness. Wherever a timber scaler's ser- P ices are required, whether it be for arbitration between compan·1es and cutters or for revenue between compan- 1 P ies and the Crown, the competent scaler records his tc measurements accuratelq, speedily and without fear ti or favour. In addition, he organizes his work so that ~ the movement of timber from the stump to its ultimate destination is not impeded c C Finally; a scaler is a referee between the buyers ; and sellers of rough cut wood products whose main duty is to reduce the difference of opinon as to quanl tity and quality which ·might exist between the aforementioned buyers and sellers to a minimum ................... A By Courtesy of the Timber Cullers Assn. The origin of scaling or measuring timber ic; probably as ancient as logging. When that timberoperator King Solomon logged the Forest of Lebanon, he no doubt used scalers to keep him informed periodically as to the quantity and quality of timber cut. No records exist as to the units of measurements used in those tar-off days, but one can presume that King Solomon, with all his wisdom, had no knowledge of the Doyle rule or the cord system of wood measurement. These were a 19th century creation of the fogging industry on the North American Continent. The Doyle rule has been adequately explained in the Scalers' Manual issued by the Department of Lands and Forests, Province of Ontario. In common with other log rules, a scaler take's no less than two measurements and records same . They are the length ond diameter of the log. The cord system of measurment 1s another story. Its origin is obscure but the following explanation is probably the truth. After the early settlers landed on this continent, in the course of time they were called on to produce fuelwood for the town dwellers. They used one-horse sleds for transportation. A load was piled on a rack with stakes eight feet apart and tour feet high. The wood was cut tour feet long. In a short time the purchasers and sellers of this fuel-wood referred to a load as a· cord Eventually this unit of measurement was adopted by large scale buyers of rough cut wood products, P.articularly pulp and paper mi I ls, largely because (a) the cutters of wood knew from experience what a cord meant, (b) it was a quick, simple method of measuring. The efficiency of th1s method ot wood measurement is proven by the fact that most of the pulpwood produced 1s sold on a cord basis. However, it has its drawbacks. The solid wood content of measured stacked wood varies. This variation is caused by loose piling, poor trimming of limbs etc. This often produced a difference of opinion as to quantity between the buyers and sellers of rough cut wood products. Disagreements became so common it was found necessary to hire men whose sole j'Jb in the woods was to measure the wood produced.· An interesting sidelight to the above is that scalers have occasionally been referred to as rogues with rules in AN EASY JOB As nearly everyone knows, an executive has practically nothing to do. That is, except to decide what is to be done, to tell somebody to do it, to listen to reasons why it should be done by somebody else, or why it should be done in a different way; to prepare arguments in rebuttal that shall be convincing and conciusive; to follow up to see 1f the thing has been done; To discover that it hasn't; To inquire why; To listen to excuses from the person who should have dooe it; To follow up a second time to see if the thing has been done, only to discoverThat it has been done incorrectly; to point out how it should have been done; to conclude that as long as it has been done it may as well be left as it is; to wonder if it is not time to get rid of a person who cannot do a thing right; to reflect that the person at fault has a wife and seven kids, and that certainly-- I I No other executive would put up with him for another moment, and that in al.I probability any successor would be just as bad and maybe worse; To consider how much simpler and better the thing would hav~ been done had he done it himself in the first place; To reflect sadly that if he had done it himself he would have been able to do it right in twenty minutes, but that as things turned out he himself spent two days trying to find out why it was that it had taken somebody else three weeks to do it wrong, and then realized that such an idea would strike at the very roots ot the belief of all employees that "An executive has nothing to do!' A{a,/ze eochllane oilalldwal/,e 'lfoUII, ollead9i"a,11,te11,4 /011 • .. LUMBERMEN'S- CAMPER'S---HOUSEHOLD & MINER'S SUPPLIES I See Our Large Stock of Fishing Tackle FOR ALL YOUR HARDWARE-SHOP AT COCHRANE RA.ROW ARE (PORT ARTHUR) LIMITED PORT ARTHUR PHONE 200 ONTARIO �Y, 1948 r---.:.. equally ;caling ht by Wood ,caling ·s ser~ ~tween mpan:fs his t fear ) that ·imate >uyers main quanJfore- has ecide isten else, pare and been • To nave .1 ing out • as r is· rVh~ I at y-- LOG BOOK ULY, 1948 A Loggers Handbook of Instructions Reprinted herewith is the material on the front inside cover of the Northeastern Loggers Handbook which has for its motto "easier and safer work, greater production (more pay) and better living condition./·. "If you want to be a mechanic, you will easily find plenty of good books which will tell you what you need TO know. You will also find plenty of instructors and training shops." What about the young man who wants to make his living by logging? For him there is no good source of information to which he can turn. The books and courses on logging are for the logging engineers-not tor the fellow who uses the axe and crosscut. Why shouldn't there be a simple illustrated hand book which will tell the young woodsman (or the green woodsman) what he needs to know about the care and use of his tools and the best of the old and the new techniques of, and devices for logging? He needs to know the "tricks of the trade'' as much as anyone. We hope that these pages, together with other short papers like it, will finally be put together in a printed Northeastern Loggers' Handbook. We ore putting it out in this form first because there seems to be an urgent need for this sort of information; and because we need the help and advice of persons who know about logging in our region before printing. We want the the experienced logger to tell us what important things we have missed and where our advice is not good. We want the young man going into the woods for the first time to tell us what parts of it he finds hard to understand, to suggest how it can be made more useful to him. We would like the equipment manufacturers to check our recommendations for use of their products PAGE 7 and tell us about new devices they are developing. Please send critisisms, questions, and suggestions to: the director, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 614 Bankers Securities Building, Philadelphia 7, Penna. Additional copies of this and other publications in this series can be obtained from the same address.'· To date there are sixteen pamphlets issued as follows. Section 1 How To Choose and Use Your Axe. Section 2 How To Choose, Use and Sharpen a Crosscut Saw. Section 3 How To Select and Take Care of Your Bow Saw. Section 4 Wedges and Their Use in Logging - - Splitting Wood Section 5 Peavies, Cant Hooks and Pulp Hooks. Section 6 Tools for Peeling Wood Section 7 Some Pointers on Power Saws for Logging Section 8 Pointers on Felling Trees Section 9 Limbing and Bucking the Tree. Section 10 Ground Skidding with Horses. Section l l Skidding with Tractors Section 12 Wire Rope and Accessories. Section 13 Cable Skidding. Section 14 Loading Section 17 All Weather Roads. Glossary of Terms Section 18 EDITORS NOTE: If you are interested in the training of woodsmen write direct for these pamphlets. They are well-illistrated and informative and will be a great help in any training program. Dominion Wire Rope &Cable Co. Ltd. for :esder JV<? Manufacturers of ce· h~ All Grades & St11ndard Constructions Steel Wire Ropes & Strands ·es, WO :en Ien ~ry ive PRE-FORMED & NON PREFORMED q.eai"'1.inr; -- \VIRE ROPES for the PAPER, TIMBER, & LOGGING INDUSTRIES for HIGH LINES, CONVEYORS, SCRAPERS, CRANES, WARPING TUGS GENERAL PURPOSE ROPES We Carry A Complete Stock of Wire Rope Fittings Head office & works 17 5 St. Joseph Street Branch office 170 Bay Street LACHINE, QUE. 1 NORTHLAND MACHINERY SUPPLY CO. LTD. FORT WILLIAM, ONT. TORONTO, ONT. �·PAGE 8 LOG BOOK Pulpwood Sinkage Loss The Great Lakes Paper Company, Limited Woodlands Department have been and are conducting some tests to check the sinkage loss of pulpwood. These tests are under the supervision of Mr. L. Murphy, Chief Scaler and for the information of all companies here is Ci brief report from Mr. Murphy. It is emphasized that these Tests are far trom complete but is hoped that the information published herewith may lead to other companies making tests or, 1f tests have been made, to pass this valuable information to others through the medium of this booklet. PURPOSE. The purpose of these sinkage tests was from an operational viewpoint only. Soil conditions, wood densities, age classifications, etc. were not taken into consideration and the logs used were selected only as ta species Dog River, dropped several feet during the river drive so that it was impossoble to complete the test. How ever, at Valora, the monthly tests will be made through out the summer of 1948 to show the effects when this pulpwood 1s left in the water for two seasons. It is planned to make further tests in the various areas where delivery of pulpwood and logs is made b water transportation. CONCLUSIONS Sufficient tests have not as yet been made upon r which to base definite conclusions. However, it is conceivable that much of the annual sinkage loss on balsam pulpwood could be eliminated by early cutting. It is assumed that baisam cut during the winter season would suffer the same sinkage loss as green balsam cur in the summer and watered immediately. Note: Statistics to date are on page 9 (oppos·1te page) METHOD: Each log was numbered by means of a small metal tag before being placed in the water. Notes were recorded showing ( 1) the species, (2) whether the log was butt, centre or top, (3) the date cut, (4) the average diameter and (5) any apparent defect. The logs were securely boomed in a sheltered bay and each month thereafter a test for sinkage loss was carefully made. "We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except the politicians and the officials, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privilege." RESULTS· The results to date are recorded here. During the month of June 1947, the water level at Camp 117, -WINSTON CHURCHILL. PAPYRUS - March - April TIMBER PRODUCERS EQUIPMENT PULP, LOGGING, SAWMILL AND WOODWORKING MACHINERY 4131 PHONE LAKESIDE 1929 REGENT ST. DELBERT L. LaFLEUR DULUTH 4, MINN. MACK TONGS & GRAPPLERS FOR HANDLING LOGS, RAILROAD TIES, PULP AND OTHER TIMBER PRODUCTS . Mack log and Tie Tongs • Mack Pulpwood Grapplers Superior LIDGERWOOD Mundy FIVE NEW LIDGERWOOD G.M. DIESEL POWERED, MULTl-SPEED, HIGH~LEAD GROUND SKIDDERS BEING DELIVERED TO MARATHON MECHANICAL OPERATING AT STEVENS AND CARAMAT. �LOG BOOK ULY, 1948 drive How ough 1 this PAGE 9 RECORD OF SINKAGE TEST ON SPRUCE AND BALSAM SFT. PULPWOOD LOCATION, CAMP MO. 117, DOG RIVER CONCESSION rious le b Mo. of Logs Species Date Watered Date Cut Cubic Cont. 1 mo. % Sinkage After 2 mo. 3 mo. 4 mo. 30.64% Total % Sinkage June 1, 1947 Balsam conbal- 19. tnter 1reen 1tely. reen ............ Seasoned 1 mon. 57 94.67 28.98% 28.98% 2.65% 51 1.95% 14.47% 2.65% Seasoned 2 mon. 96.02 94.59 June 21/46 June 21/46 June 22/45 July 23/46 Apr. 25/46 June 21/46 16.59% 57 Seasoned 3 mon. 51 60.69 Apr. 25/46 July 24/46 3.53% 23.08% 8.12% 26.18% 8.12% 216 345.97 9.66% 16.40% 17.24% TOTALS 29.51% '25.60% MOTE: By June 1, 1947 some of the metal tags had been lost , from c; number of logs so that they could not be identified except according to species. age) Spruce Green Seasoned l mon. Seasoned 2 mon. Seasoned 3 mon. TOTALS 9 18.67 10 10 13.04 23.04 10 26.21 39 80.96 June 21/46 June 21/46 June 22/46 July 23/ 46 niI 7.07% niI 7.07% niI 7.07% niI Apr. 25/ 46 June 21 / 46 July 24/ 46 n i I niI niI ni I niI niI niI 1.63% 1.63% Apr. 25/46 niI 1.63% RECORD OF SINKAGE TEST ON SPRUCE, BALSAM, AND JACKPINE 8 FT. PULPWOOD Issue LOCATION, CAMP 307, VALO RA Species 1 · mo. % Sinkage After 2 mo. 3 mo. June 24/ 47 June 24/47 8.60%. ni I 17.60% ... 2.39% June 23/47 May 23/47 June 24/47 June 24/ 47 niI niI niI niI June 23/47 May 23/47 June 24/47 June 24/ 47 niI niI 3.49% n iI Mo. of Logs Cubic Cont. Date Cut Date Watered Si 88.63 92.13 June 23/47 Moy 23/47 9.87 17.89 79.99 1 125.63 4 mo. Balsam Green Seasoned 1 mon. 51 35.76% 6.03% 40.39% 12.82% niI niI niI niI Spruce Green Seasoned l mon. 8 10 ,. Jackpine Green Seasoned l mon 55 77 3.49% niI CLASSIFICATION OF SUNKEN LOGS Butt Logs 8 (15.25%) Balsam Green Balsam Seasoned Centre Logs mon. 2 (3.76%) Jackpine Green Jackpine Seasoned 1mo (3.49%) nil (17.18%) 11 (6.59%) 4 n iI (1.25%) Tops Totals 9 (7.98 %) 28 (40.39%) 3 (2.47 %) 9 Cl 2.82%) 1 1 (3.49%) (1.25%) n iI n iI Ontario COMPILED BY: ( L. MURPH'r' 3.49% 1.25% �LOG BOOK PAGE l 0 JULY, l News Headlines, May and June 1948 FIRE BATTLED NEAR NIPIGON SAWMILL FIRE LOSS $70,000 AT GERALDTON ABNORMALLY DRY SPRING WEATHER CAUSES CONCERN FIRE HAZARD I~ FORESTS HIGH, 9 NEW BLAZES 900 MEN FIGHT F~RES, RAIN BIG ·HELP ~ ~- '\ :;..;;_.:,,;;,. FIRE AT FRANZ BLAZES Ff ERCEL Y ' .... -- -~ ·-- ~;;- FLAMES COVER 117,000 ACRES f -~~~ ~ 330 MEN BATT~I NG DRIVEN FLAMES EAST LONG LAC HIGH WIND FANS DOG LAKE FIRE MISSISSAGA FIRE ONE OF LARGEST EVER IN ONTARIO PERMIT AREAS CLOSED } 300 BATTLING BLAZE RUNNING THROUGH TREE TOPS 3 N. ONTARIO FIRES "CATASTROPHIES," - RAGING UNCHECKED LOSS OF PULPWOOD REPORTED, $300,000 IN LONG LAC FIRE MAN'S CARELESSNESS IN WOODS IS CAUSING MILLIONS LOSS Woodsmen RetDember! WA THE FIRE SEASON IS ONLY HA ARE YOUR RES~ONSIBILITY IS GREAT The Forest Fire Prevention Act States: (Sec 19) For the purpose of controlling and extinguishing any fire, an officer may employ or summon the assistance of any male person between the ages of eighteen and sixty years, excepting only trainmen, boat crews, local telephone opera_tors, telegraphers and despatchers on duty, doctors and persons physically unfit. R.S.O. 1937, ~- 325, S. 17 (4); 1946, C. 32, S. 14, Amended. (2) Every person who refuses or neglects to render assisstance when required under this section shall be guilty o,f an offence against this act. !t.S.O. 1937, C. 325, S. 17 (5), Amended. BE ( B E ·p Your Job depends on havir company employees but also on • Ensure that they, too, understand t KEEP OTHERS FROM SETTING FIRES AND YOU WON'T HAVE TO HELP PUT THEM OUT. to your camp Fire Warden any disregards or disobeys forest fir4 (TEAR TH IS OUT AND POSl �LOG BOOK PAGE l i 1948 - The Record Is Bad APRIL, MAY & JUNE, 1947 DATE & NO. OF FIRES-1948 DISTRICT Port Arthur Geraldton To June 19, 1948 Kenora Sioux Lookout Fort Frances To June 24, 1948 Chapleau Sogama North Bay Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury To June 23, 1948 II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II 87 54 42 13 56 6 87 21 25 4 15 12 88 105 149 8 18 29 54 (Reprinted from June Issue of The Marathon Courier.) Notiee . The use of tailor-made cigarettes, pipes, Vogue, Egyptian, Zig-Zag and/or other heavy cigarette papers is strictly forbidden during the fire season. Anyone found using any of the above will be immediately dismissed ....... There will be no exceptions. E. A. LUNAM, District Superintendent. • INCR EASED P-RECAUTIONS The prevention and suppression of forest fires is a matter of concern to every citizen and especially to citizens who earn their living as a result of woods operations. o cut .... Check up not only Oi1 fisherm en and ALL SMOKERS. ERS of fire. Report immediately al (Employee or otherwise) that ~OUR CAMP BULLETIN BOARD) If you have any suggestions or constructive criticism to offer in respect to the prevention and suppression of forest fires in Ontario, please write to the editor of this Log Book and your remarks will be taken up at the next meeting of the Operators' Association. Please co-operate .......Remarks and ideas from men with practical experience will be extremely helpful. �LOG BOOK PAGE 12 JULY, 1 The First Pres-to-Logs by Albert Sideen A number of years ago when I was living on my father' s farm, an American tourist gave me ten dollars to look after his fish worms for the winter. I fed the worms oat meal every day and they grew large and became very fat. One day I was hauling sawdust for the icehouse. The wagon-box had some holes in it through which the sawdust trickled out along the road. The worms were out playing in the yard and started to eat the sawdust.. I was very busy and forgot to put the worms in their box that night. The next morning the worms were all gone. I located them down by the sawdust pile at the mill. They had eaten so much sawdust during the night, they were all dead. ! borrowed an extra team of horses from our neighbour and we skidded the worms up to the yard where we sawed them up for firewood . The sawdust filled worms produced enough fire~ wood to keep our three box-stoves going all winter and we sold eleven cords to our neighbours. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS - WHO M1AKE THl'S BOOK POSSIBLE New Forest Products Business In Operation Th~ Thunder Bay Wood Producers owned by Messr. Ness and Marfinsen, has now been operating since last November manufacturing birch railway shim?, The owners leased a concrete slab which was formerly the floor of a war time storage elevator from the city of Port Arthur and have built a small building to house the saw and other machinery. They purchase 50 inch birch bolts, 8 inches and up from local farmers. At the prestnt time the C. N. R. are purchasing their entire output of shims and the sawdust is sold to ice houses and people owning sawdust burners. The slabs are sold for firewood so that the entire birch lo.g is utilized. The Thunder Bay Wood Producers are presently employing 11 men Messrs. Ness and Martinsen are laying plans for the future aod are planning to produce mine wedges and other finished forest products for sale in the district. ONE TREE CAN MAKE A MILLION MATCHES ! ONE MATCH CAN DESTROY A MILLION TREES ! "JOE BEA VER" by Ed Nofziger Newsprint Made From Wheat Straw at Thorold Plant Newsprint made in part from wheat straw - instead of wood pulp has been produced in quantity at the Ontario Paper Company Limited, plant at Thoroid i t was announced. The announcement, in a prepared statement, said 50 tons was manufactured-"Fi rst commercial tonnage in North America" of such newsprint. The production is an outcome of the straw-pulpi ng technique developed at the Peoria, Ill., laboratory of the United States Agriculture Department ''The experiment disclosed that while use of straw as a substitute for wood pulp raised newsprint production costs somewhat, straw fibre could be used more advantageously in producing higher-grade papers which would improve wood supplies for newsprint manufacture" the statement said "Research officials say that if the new techique is developed on an extensive commercial basis it will open iucrative markets for straw, especially in the American mid-west and Canadian prairies." Passerby: Indian: "Why do you ride while your wife walks?" "She no gottum horse." Jl "I wish some people would learn that it's easier to prevent a than it is to put it out!" �LOG BOOK 1948 ADVERTISERS' NEWS As a s.ervice to our advertisers (Who make this ooklet possible) and as additional information to the en of the woods' industry, space will be alloted in is booklet tor any interesting information about quipment, supplies, changes or innovations, etc., that dvertisers may wish to tell about. The editor reserves the right to judge which items re of general interest and these will be published. Advertisers are invited to make use of this serice in future issues. ESCO SLASHERSThe Northern Engineering and supply Company, imited announces that there are now 12 slashers at ark in the district 10 with the Marathon Paper ills of Canada Limited, 1 with the Ontario-Minnsota Pulp & Pape Company, Limited, 1 with the rompton Pulp & Paper Company, Limited. PAGE age unit capable of withstanding a static pull on the drum of 217,800 pounds. These haulage units i:::ind fai rleads were sold by rimber Producers Equipment, ::)uluth, Minn. and man-• ufactured by the Superior-Lidgerwood-Mundy Corporation at Superior, Wisconsin, U. S. A. who are at present manufacturing five Diesel Powered Multi-speed yarders tor skidding tree length logs at the . Stevens and Caramat operation of Marathon. The Superior-Lidgerwood-Mundy Corporation is the result ot combining the manufacturing facilities of the Lidgerwood Mfg. Co. formerly of Elizabeth, N.J., the Superior Iron Works Co. of Superior, Wisconsin and the J. S. Mundy Hoisting Engine Co. formerly of Newark, N. J. into one unit providing a combination of years of experience in the respective fields of each of the various companies. Personel, facilities, methods, engineering and experience have been grouped and interwoven to provide the best in design and manufacturing, igerwood Equipment Controls Booms on the Pie River The Marathon Paper Mills of Canada Ltd. succesfully controlled the flow of Pulpwood in the Pie River uring the high water period last spring by installation f 3 log booms, one located at the mouth and the other two upstream. These booms were constructed in sections connected by heavy chains and of sufficient length to permit closing the booms accross the river during flood stage to hold back the wood. One end is anchored to a "deadman" on the bank and the other end is attached to a two inch diameter wire rope spooled in by a 100 H.P. compound geared gasoline powered hau!- THIS BOOK IS PRINTED BY THE CONSOLIDATED PRESS., 137 S. MAY ST., FORT WILLIAM, ONT. VISITS OPERATIONSMr. J. W. B. Sisam, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto and Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Forestry Research, Ontario Research Council visited woods operations at Heron Bay, Black Sturgeon area and Valora during the latter part of June INTERNATIONAL MOTOR TRUCKS FROM HALF-1:0N TO 45-TON HEAVY DUTY GAS AND DIESEL MODELS Dominion Logging Sulkies - Dominion Trailers SEMI, LOW BED, POLE AND SPECIAL LOGGING TYPES DIFFERENT TYPES OF HYDRAULIC HOISTS - TRUCK BODIES TAIL GATE LOADERS WINCHES SALES & SERVICE S. J. HILL &SONS LIMITED Phones RED RIVER ROAD 1613 1617 13 North PORT ARTHUR, ONT. �PAGE 14 JULY, 1948; LOG BOOK The Pulpwood Salvage Association Wherever there are wood storages, rafting and towing operations, there is bound to be a certain amount of loss. A heavy wind rolling the booms: a broken boom, rounding-up a raft or a loading operationtion-any one, or a combination of these, may cause sticks of pulpwood or logs to get loose, drift away and become salvage wood. Each stick of pulpwood and each log is supposed to be stamped with the ownership mark of the company which cut' the wood. On actual practice, all sticks are not stamped). Under the laws of Canada and the United States, the ownership right to this wood is retained by the company whose stamp is on the stick and it is against the law and punishable under the criminal code for any unauthorized person or persons to take this wood without authority from the owner. To look after this salvage wood and to simplify and co-ordinate the distribution of salvage wood which is picked up, the Pulpwood Salvage Association was formed in 1938 as a non-profit organization by companies who had towing or rafting operations on Lake Superior and Lake Nipigon This year the shore-line from the Inter-national Boundry the Pigion River to Sault Ste. Marie is divided into nineteen areas and the shore-line of Lake Nipigon has been divided into six areas. Contracts are made between contractors (known as wood-pickers) and the Association, alloting the contractor a certain area and stating the terms and conditions of picking the shore-line and delivering the wood. There is very litttle towing and rafting on the south (United States) shore of Lake Superior now but some pulpwood is still towed across the lake. A check is kept on the south shore and when there is sufficie~t salvage wood accumulated in an area, a contract 1s let by the Pulpwood Salvage Association to cover the the salvage of the wood. When a wood-picker has filled his booms, the Pulpwood Salvage Association is notified and an officer of the association proceeds to the salvage storage and and checks the wood tor ownership. After this check arrangements ore made for the nearest compo~y _to take over the wood, or, if one company hos a mo1ontv ot wood ·i n the raft, they have first opportunity to take deliver) The company which takes delivery of the raft is. charged with the wood and pays the wood-pic~er. Companies who have wood in the raft are credited with their wood and at the end of each season on accounting takes place. Companies which have received the wood pay up for the perce~tage of it belongi_n~ t~ other companies and payment 1s made to the ongma1 owners of the wood. This arrangement works out very well and the salvaging of merchantible wood is controlled. Last year approximately 25,000 cords of pulpwood and log5 were salvaged. SOUND REASONING AND GOOD PRACTICE BY AN OLD-TIMER- OVERHEARD IN A NEWAYGO TIMBER COMPANY CAMP ON BLACK BAY PENNISULA11 Young Lad: "Got a match, Old-timer? Old-t',mer: "No I don't carry them in summer-time .' ' "'\ II Young Lad: "Got a lighter thenr . Old-timer: "Nope. Smoke in winter time. Summer-time chew snuff. Too dangerous to toke chance with fire." THE "PARAMOUNT" CUB PORTABLE FIRE PUMP BUILT TO LAST-- BUILT TO FUNCTfON CONTINUOUSLY FOR LONG PERIODS WITH LITTLE ATTENTION Equipped with automatic primer and weighing less than 70 lbs. net, the PARAMOUNT Cub will supply water for effective fire fighting to eight close-range lines or through a mile of single hosellne WE CAN FILL YOUR ORDER NOW ALSO DISTRIBUTORS FOR Domin:on Oxygen & Acetylene, Lincoln Electrcc Welding Rod & Accessories Dominon Wire Rope & Cable, Dunlop . Rubber Hose & Belting. Available from Fort William Stock Northland Machinery Supply Co. Ltd. 203 HARDISTY STREET FORT WILLIAM, ONT. �_JU_LY ~, _ 1_94_8 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _L_OG _ BO_OK _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ PA_GE_15 Euclid's 11 EUCLID" pulling 60 cords of green jackpine at Kowkash, Ont. OWNER: Nipigon Lake Timber Co., Ltd.---Operator E. Sobush. One of the Many types of Operations Our EUCLID Tractor can be Applied to for the Pulp and Paper Industry. A RUGGED, POWERFUL, AND DEPENDABLE UNIT, THAT HAS PROVEN IT'S CAPACITY TO GO OUT ON THE MOST ISOLATED TERRITORY AND "STAY ON THE JOB." REVOLUTIONARY LOW COSTS FOR OPERATl NG AND MAI NTAl NI NG TREMENDOUS POWER AND SPEED, COMFORTABLE AND EASY TO OPERATE, ARE SOME OF THE MANY REASONS EUCLID OWNERS CLAIM "COMPLETE SATISFACTION" WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS UNIT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, WRITE PHONE OR WIRE G. H. GODSAL~ EQUIPM-ENT CO. LTD. TORONTQ. 213 BAY STREET PORT ARTHUR, TEL N. 1786 MONTREAL PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO I �PAGE 16 LOG BOOK JULY, 194 60 foot boom is mounted on a scow. The era operates a basket 16 feet by 18 feet with thre sides 2½ feet high. The fourth side is ope and the basket is used like a scoop - dropp in the raft and swung until full and then raise and dumped in the hold or on the deck. The Roen Steamship Company of Sturgeon Ba own three self-loading barges, the Hilda, ti Lillian and the Maitland. Each barge has crane with a l OS-foot boom mounted in H centre which operates a basket to load the boa For unloading, if the wood is to be dumped in the water, a bucket or grapple is substituted fc the basket. (3) By use of a perrn::ment loading dock. F1 (Continued on page 18} Loading Pulpwood On Vessels From the mouth of the mighty Nipigon River, pulpwood and logs are either made-up into rafts and towed away or loaded on vessels and transported to their destination. Nipigon is the scene of probably the largest loading operation on Lake Superior this year. Other loading points ore Michipicoten Harbour, Heron Bay, Slate Islands, Port Arthur and Pigeon Bay . • There are three methods of loading pulpwood-( l) The most common-by use of a floating jackladder (2) By use of a crane at Nipigon a crane with a DONALD Pre-Lubricated WIRE ROPE The tougher the job - the rougher the tugging need for PRE-LUBRICATION - - the greater the I as Donald does it. I I WE CARRY THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF WIRE ROPE IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO JAEGER ''Sure Prime'' PUMPS Self-Priming high pressure Fire Fighting and Water Supply Pumps carried in stock. W. V. _Barker & Co. Ltd. PULP AND PAPER AND LOGGING EQUIPMENT N. 1580 PORT ARTHUR N. 2688 �JULY, 1948 CLASSIFIED ADS FOR SALE2 only Hyster Double drum winche·s for Caterpillar D-4 tractor in first class operating condition. l only Lincoln Zephyr Marine Engine complete with Scripps reverse gear 1 only clear vision hand gas pump complete with 500 gallon tank anp fittings. 20 sets no. l heavy logging harness completely over~auled and repaired. For fu'hher information or personal inspection contact Newaygo Timber Company, Limited, Port Arthur, Ontario. ~ e e t. to snake loads by track-type tractor over secondary roads. F-or particulars contact B. Midgley, Purchasing Agent, Marathon Paper Mills of Canada Limited. LIST OF SECOND HAND MOTORS AND POWER UNITS FOR SALE BY DRYDEN PAPER COMPANY, LIMITED. CLIFTON FAIRBANKSRUSSEL RUSSEL WAUKESHA WISCONSON WISCONSON INTERNATIONAL UNIT 10 H. P. )0 H. P. 20 H. P. 40 H. P. DR 17 KS 3 B 2 PD 80 100 H. P. Marine Motor Sta ti ona ryGm, Engine Marine Motor Marine Motor Gas Power Unit Gas Power Unit Gas Power Unit Industrial Power Diesel New and used sets of heavy logging harness, collors and spare parts. This Booklet is printed on "Thrift-Coat Enamel" produced at the Provincal Paper Limited, Port Arthur Mill, Ontario, out of wood produced in North-Western Ontario. Logging Sleighs 3" and 3 ½ " also RIGGING. Pulp Racks, Industrial Coal Heaters, Lewis Oil Burners, Space Heaters FIRE PREVENTION POSTERS- FOR SALE: a PAGE 19 LOG BOOK One shallow-draft all-steei warping tug powered with 90 HP Cummins diesel - 38' 8" long, 11' 7" beam. Three custom-built logging semi-trailers with tandem axles, dual wheels, hydraulic loading wheels, vacuum brakes, upper 5th wheel. Rated capacity 15 tons ... i It tractor dolly with lower 5th wheel dual wheels. Used with above trailers The April issue of this Log Book featured a double page spread on fire prevention entitled "No Fires This Year By Human Hand." Twelve hundred copies of this feature were ordered by member companies and have been placer on camp notice boards, and other strategic points throughout Northwestern Ontario. In addition the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests had 500 copies printed which were distributed by the Public Relations Officer, Port Arthur District NENGINEERING &-SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED FORT WILLIAM AND GERALDTON / NENT AND PORTABLE �J J The Caterpillar Model D-315 Diesel Electric Set. Self Regulated 110 220 Volts Alternating Current. ; ,.\JRTHWESTERN ONTARIO PUMPS hting and Water Supply Pumps carried Caterp,llar 01~ .. 1 - in stock. Electric 111' 11/ll W. V. _Barker & Co. Ltd. PULP AND PAPER AND LOGGING EQUIPMENT N. 1580 PORT ARTHUR N. 2688 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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III No. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU? ...................... page 1 THE 3rd ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES' COMPUTING CONFERENCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 GOOD PRACTICES IN HANDLING CARD DECKS ....... page 5 LANGUAGES MOST OFTEN USED IN JANUARY & FEBRUARY & MARCH ....................... page 7 LIBRARY PROGRAMS MOST OFTEN USED IN JANUARY &FEBRUARY &MARCH ............. page 7 CURRENT PRODUCTION STATISTICS ............... page 8 YEAR-TO-DATE PRODUCTION STATISTICS .......... page 8 MAJOR ACADEMIC COMPUTER USERS ............... page 9 NOTES FROM OPERATIONS ....................... page 9 �WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU? A variety of services are provided by the computer centre for academic computer users. In particular Mr. Watson (MB1040, ext 383) and Mr. Davis (MB1039, ext 316) together constitute the Academic Computer Services group. They are available during the hours of 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon and 1 :00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. for consultation by anyone requiring information or assistance. At least one copy of an academic user's guide produced by this group is located in each department either with the secretary or one of the computer users in that department. This guide gives detailed information on all computer services available. This article constitutes a summary of that information. Some of our users have acquired the knowledge to program the computer themselves, but many others use services which require no knowledge of the computer. Besides the consultation service, these include; 1) Computer marking of objective multiple choice tests. 2) Analysis of surveys - here the user should consult with academic computer services on the design of a survey before hand. 3) Statistical analysis of data - a wide variety of programs are available. 4) Production of maps and graphs. 5) Solution of a variety of numerical analysis problems. 6) Assistance with the use of specialized programs or systems a user himself acquires from another institution. 7) A program writing service in which specialized programs will be written or modified to solve a user problem or analyse his data. 8) Use of the APL Terminal system as a quick and easy replacement for tedious hand calculations. 9) Teaching courses provided from time to time if there is demand. However, a computer assisted instruction package is conveniently constantly available to teach the easily learned APL computer language The user who wishes to program himself can also use the consulting service which includes: 1) Fully supported consulting service on the following languages: (a) FORTRAN IV for: (b) i) WATFIV fast compiler ii) IBM G and H compilers APL �-2- 2) (c) 360 Assembler language for: (d) i) IBM F Assembler ii) SPASM teaching system 360 Job Control Language Fully supported consulting service on the following systems: (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) 3) CSMP package for the solution of simulation problems. and differential equations Scientific Subroutine package containing over 200 subroutines for common numerical and statistical problems Graph Plotter Routines Statistical Packages A variety of APL packages Conversational Remote Job Entry A partially supported consulting service (restriction imposed by manpower limitations) on the following languages: COBOL (WATBOL fast compiler) PL/1 (PL/C fast compiler) SNOBOL In addition the experienced user may request special subroutines to be written for him, use the manuals, texts and journals kept in the computer centre library and take more advanced courses as offered by the computer centr~. However, with only 2 members of the Academic Computer Services group, all these services have to be offered on a first come first served basis. The operations group is responsible for all equipment and processing. It offers the following services: 1) A keypunching service. Coding forms can be obtained from the head keypunch operator in room MB1047. 2) A processing service whereby jobs left at the control room window in room MB1047 may be collected when processed from the same place within 2-24 hours (except on weekends). The computer centre provides over 100 hours of this service each week. 3) A fast turn around service provided in room MB1049 whereby users may enter their own jobs and receive results within a short period of time. A student is on hand from September to March to assist new users. There are some restrictions on the types of jobs which can use this service. 4) Conversational Remote Job Entry from our terminal in room MB1049 5) 15 typewriter terminals in room MB1049 for use with the APL system �-3- 6) 3 dial up terminals (connected to the computer via an ordinary telephone) 2 of which are located in the Centennial Building and one is usually located in the computer centre area 7) Keypunches and a card sorter in room MB1058 for individual use 8) A library for the storage of computer tapes 9) Other special services are available through the Control Supervisor in room MB1049A (e.g. bursting, decolating, interpreting, special control of computer input and output, mark sense input interpreting, etc.) I can only conclude by suggesting that any potential user contact one of the Academic Computer Services group for advice as to how to begin. THE 3rd ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES' COMPUTING CONFERENCE TORONTO, February 24th &25th, 1972 The theme of the 3rd Ontario Universities' Computing Conference held on February 24th and 25th was "The Contribution of the Computer to the Educational Process". There was evidence of some very healthy contributions being made in Ontario, in specific Electrical Engineering, Business Administration, System Dynamics and Medical Science projects. However, for those of us who had not seen it before, the most stimulating experience was probably watching a demonstration of the University of Illinois PLATO computer-assisted instruction system. The terminal used in this system was a technological breakthrough which has made computer-assisted instruction an economic proposition. With a new expanded system a figure of 50 cents per student hour is anticipated - including all hardware, processing and communications costs together with author royalties. After a twelve year history of credit courses taught by computer-assisted instruction at the University of Illinois very sophisticated teaching programs are now being produced. At least three speakers stressed the educational advantages of interactive timesharing systems over batch processing. Trent University not only has no batch processing it also has no computer and purchases its timesharing facilities from commercial and university suppliers. There is presently much competition in the sale of timesharing services and they have been able to obtain economic computing. The university feels that it is small enough to carry out administration by hand and or.ly use computer science as a tool rather than a discipline. The Master of Business Administration program at York University is using the computer for simulations and games, calculations, prom?ting of group decisions, computer-assisted instruction and storage of data banks for students to manipulate and analyse None of these techniques are novel, but the commitment to such a large and varied use in this type of program probably is. �-4- The Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University claims to have an information storage, retreival and analysis system which is equally suitable to the non-mathematician and • the experienced statistician. A data bank of data obtained over a period of twelve years, a special language and a variety of special purpose programs are the constituents of the system. The conceptual advantages of a variaQle animated diagram have been demonstrated in a project in the Electrical Engineering Department at McMaster University. A screen display of voltage and current in a simulated transmission line significantly improved the understanding of weaker students. The conference also included papers on System Dynamics, the use of APL in computer assisted learning, computer manipulation and illustration of surfaces, and library services. This last paper emphasized the phenomenal amount of data which would need to be stored for a national library information system, and the need for rationalization of the many current individual projects. The closing speaker, Dr. J. G. Miller of the John Hopkins University School of Medicine was strongly ciritical of educators for resistance to the use of modern technology. He has recently been involved in projects in developing countries where this technology is welcomed Through use of a device attached to a television set which can be produced in India for approximately $200, Indians will soon be able to receive education television programs directly from the United States via satellite over the Pacific. The problem of achieving academic excellence while finding some criteria for planning the distribution of decreasing resources was the subject of a panel discussion. Because of ignorance about the objectives of complex educational organization it was thought impossible to evaluate the trade-offs between competing objectives. In time academics would be expected to make value judgements so that administrators could plan and co-ordinate. Present computer modelling was considered unsatisfactory because models are not complex enough, because we are not sophisticated enough in the way we use them and because academics have not been convinced of their usefulness. However, the trap of concentrating on measurables and ignoring immeasurables should be avoided. Information from computer modelling should act as a catalyst for the asking of questions about different possibilities. Now that computers have to justify their existence there is a trend towards good public relations in computer centres. The emphasis upon providing users with a good service was demonstrated at a special interest meeting on the objectives and values of computer training. There was a good deal of self criticism for the lack of readable documentation and pertinent non jargon information being provided for the user. There is a healthy sign that computer centres want to make friends. �-5- GOOD PRACTICES IN HANDLING CARD DECKS A. CARD DECK HANDLING: 1. If the size of your deck permits, draw a diagonal line with a felt-tip marker from corner to corner across the top of the cards. 2. The final card of any complete deck should be an orange 'last card', which is available in the keypunch room where the deck is submitted. This aids the machine room operator irnnensely in separating decks which are read through the card reader one after another. 3. On Multiple Boxes: a) Print your name and the Jobname on each box, both top and front. b) Clearly indicate the order of a series, e.g. 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3, etc. c) On partially filled boxes, put a rubber band around the last handfull of cards. This keeps the cards from sliding out of order. B. 4. Don't put the rubber band on too tight around any card deck. This nicks and warps the deck, which then may not feed through the card reader. You should especially check the first and last cards of your deck as they usually get the most wear and tear. 5. Periodically check the bottom edge of the deck, particularly at the beginning and end. Nicks, bends and frayed cards will all cause poor feeding or card jams. 6. Watch the humidity and your coffee cup. Nothing ruins a deck faster than spilt liquids. Humidity is slower~ but the result is the same. The deck will warp and become unreadable. BACK-UP: 1. If the deck is important, or difficult to replace, make a copy as a backup--accidents do happen. �-6- C. 2. If your deck is going to be read through the reader several times, it will become frayed and worn, and will be replaced with a new deck at some point. Make a copy ·as a back-up. 3. In addition, consider compiling and storing your program as a load module on disk. Use of disk for good checked out programs or data is faster and better to work with for you and the operating staff. Backup for large card decks is often kept on tape in a humidity and temperature controlled Computer Centre Tape Library. MISCELLANEOUS: 1. Certain coloured cards are reserved for the following purposes: a) JCL CARDS - PINK 2. b) PROGRAM - NATURAL c) LAST CARD - ORANGE Identify changes on cards by marking the top edge of the changed card with a felt-tip marked. 3. To help you estimate the number of cards, there are approximately 140 cards per inch. 4. Card decks should be stored in adjustable trays without rubber bands around them, or as an alternative they could be tightly packed in card boxes and stored face down. Proper storage will prevent warping and damage. You might consider storing large card decks on tape in the humidity and temperature controlled Computer Centre Tape Library. 5. If you are using an 'Operations Request Card', it should also be replaced when it becomes worn. This card remains at the beginning of your deck, when being read through the card reader. �-7- LANGUAGES MOST OFTEN USED IN JANUARY &FEBRUARY &MARCH RANK LANGUAGE 1. APL 2. NO. OF TIMES USED PRIMARY USER 10,196 Students WATFIV (FORTRAN) 6,494 Students 3. PLC (PL/1) 1,422 Students 4. PL/1 1,138 Administration 5. MARKIV 827 Administration 6. FORTRAN 722 Faculty 7. Assembler 641 Computer Centre 8. SPASM (Assembler) 467 Students LIBRARY PROGRAMS MOST OFTEN USED IN JANUARY &FEBRUARY &MARCH RANK PROGRAM NO. OF TIMES USED PRIMARY USER 1. DEJCSMP2 (CSMP) 232 Engineering Dept. 2. SYMAPV5 (SYMAP) 213 Geography Dept. 3. PLOTOOL (GRAPH PLOT) 127 Geography Dept. 4. ASECTO (APT) 99 Engineering Dept. 5. RCHINT 99 Chemistry Dept. 6. RCHSPECE 91 Chemistry Dept. 7. MPANOVA 87 Psychology Dept. 8. TESTOl 77 Faculty of Education �-8- CURRENT PRODUCTION STATISTICS USER TYPE JAN, FEB, MAR, 1971 UNIV BATCH JOBS UNIV TERMINAL SESSIONS OTHER BATCH AND TERMINAL USAGE TOTAL JAN, FEB, MAR, 1972 13283 13230 12214 (est.) 10225 1712 1672 27209 25108 %CHANGE - 0.4% - 16.3% . 11 - 2.3% - 7.7% YEAR-TO-DATE PRODUCTION STATISTICS USER TYPE UNIV BATCH JOBS UNIV TERMINAL SESSIONS OTHER BATCH AND TERMINAL USAGE TOTAL 1970/71 1971/72 % CHANGE 33443 46974 25735 (est.) 30320 (est.) + 17.8% + 40.5% 2859 3518 + 23. 1% 62037 80812 + 30.3% �-9- MAJOR ACADEMIC COMPUTER USERS (July, 1971 to April l, 1972} Faculty and Research Students l. Engineering l. Mathematics 2. Geography 2. Business 3. Mathematics 3. Forestry 4. Business 4. Geography 5. Chemistry 5. Psychology 6. Anthropology/Sociology 6. Chemistry 7. Psychology 7. Engineering 8. Geology 8. Economics 9. Physics 9. Faculty of Education 10. Faculty of Education 10. Economics Notes From Operations Turnaround: Average turnaround for a faculty, research or student job submitted to Room MB1047 for batch processing was l hour and 47 minutes in March. Equipment: The IBM 1443 printer in Room MB1049 will be replaced by another 1443 in May in the hope of improving the reliability of the monitor printer. System Reliability: There were only 5 system crashes during the month of MARCH which affected APL and Monitor users. One of these was caused by a power failure. Two of these problems have not yet been fixed - a software, 0/S problem and a hardware, CPU problem. APL was available 99% and the monitor 97.7% of the time they were scheduled to be available during this month. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lakehead University Collection Description An account of the resource Photographs from Lakehead University's history: people, events, and campus. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lucifer: Newsletter of the Lakehead University Computer Centre. April 1972. Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource Newsletter includes Lakehead University Computer Centre information, and production statistics. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1972 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Canada - Ontario - Thunder Bay https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/67be62c711a38545b74a3efc71aba890.pdf f4c2a89f34abb599c2c4f74c9c1c0b0b PDF Text Text WINTER CARNIVAL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS THURSDAY, JAIDARY 19 8:00 p.m. Judging of contestants for King Karnival. Contestants are: Peter Rusak, representing Arts and' Commerce Robert Main, Pure & Applied Science and Nursing Degree Ian Thompson, Forest Tech. and Forestry Degree Dave Bahrynowski, Eng. & Mining Tech . Jeff Shiv.rattan, Business Admin. Rick Cox, Ryerson Eng. & Archritec. and Library Tech. FRIDAY, JANU.MY 20 9:00 p.m. 12:00 a.m. Forestry Dance: THE LAST WORD Official Opening of Winter Carnival 1967 King Karnival crowned Gigantic Fireworks display SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 9:30 a.m. Judging of Sculptures Points (max. 100) for Faculty sculpture Cash prizes ($25, $15, $10) for others 11:00 a.m. Swing-Ding at C.K.P.R. television studios for Faculty members and students 12:00 p.m. Luncheon for Mayors and Reeves of Northwestern Ontario 2:00 p.m. Judging of Floats & PARADEH Awards are the same as for sculptures 9:00 p.m. Nurses' Dance: THE THORNS Sculptures and Float Winners announced �- 2 - SUNDAY, JANUARY 22 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Open House for the public: Nemissa Guides will be available for tours. Also princesses will be on hand. 4:oo p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Klondike Dinner: Nemissa Waitresses will be in period costumes, in cafeteria. Tickets M)NDAY, JANUARY 23 All Day Classes TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 6:30 p.m. Torchlight Parade thru downtown Port Arthur & Fort William. Torches will be provided for each student faculty. Buses will provide transportation to tubing. 9:30 Tubing Party, Scott Highway, just before you get to Uncle Frank's 1:00 p.m. List of Slaves p:,sted in cafeteria '®NESDAY, JANUARY 25 9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Slave Day Begins Pie-Eating Contest in cafeteria Scarf-Judging: Categories to be announced (Cafeteria) II fl " Beard Judging: " (University Center Theatre) Prizes for each: total $20.00 each conte·st . In •oafeteria ~·: • ~ ~sOO Fred Flange I s Birthday Party: m~c. Theatrct 7:30 p.m. Monte Carlo Nite: Circle K Play money sells at $.25 per $1r ~O Games are in the cafeteria and Ga~ Room . . p.m. Varietyt �- 3 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 (cont•a) Dance: 9:30 p.m. Great Hall: THE THORNS Auction of Prizes, using play money ll:30 p.m. THlmSDAY, JANUARY 26 All Day Classes cancelled S.A.S. sroRTS DAY 10:30 a.m. crincess Pull, starting on campus 11:00 a.m. Pancake Lunch: Circle K In cafeteria. Price is $.35, including coffee! 12:00 p.m. Return of princesses Official opening of Sports Day A complete list of events is posted in the tunnel and the cafeteria. 9:00 p.m. FRIDAY, Dance: Great Hall: THE THORNS JANUARY 27 All Day Classes Cancelled 9:30 p.m. WINTER CARNIVAL FORMAL BALL Coliseum in Fort William Dance to JIMMY BEGG and His Orchestra Banquet Permit: 5 for $2.00 Ticket $6.oo 12:00 a.m. Crowning of Carnival Queen Car Draw Faculty Winner Announced & Presentation of Trophy THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!! �- 4 THURSDAY, JANUARY 26 8:00 p.m. Carnival Queen judged. Board of Governors Room. Contestants are: Sharon Woods, representing Arts and Commerce Alida Moes, Forestry Technology and Degree Wendy Ticknor, Pure & Applied Science and Nursing Degree Barbara Lone, Business Administration Deborah Bryant, Ryerson Engineering & Architecture & Library Technology Marjolein Niels, Engineering & Mining Technology WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 9:45 a.m. HEDDA TROGNITZ boards Air Canada flight to Toronto and Waterloo to participate in the Miss Canadian Universities Queen Pageant sponsored by Waterloo Lutheran University. We wish Hedda the best of luck down there. A1 resume of activities will appear in the Argus shortly. CARNIVAL BUTTONS will be on sale in the cafeteria on Tuesday, January 17, or as soon after as possible. Price for full-time student, or first-year student nurse is $.75. Price for faculty member, or part-time student is $1.00 On Monday, January 23, the remaining buttons may be purchased at $1.00 only . .ADMISSION TO EVENTS, per couple is a Carnival Button each plus one L.U. Identification Card. Individuals must have IDTH: a button and an I.D. Card. Due to our limited facilities and largestudent body, this is the only way to assure that L.U. students and staff are not excluded from any function. Proctors will be out in full force to check any "crashers". There is no cost to the student, except the prices listed in the schedule of events, pp. 1 - 4. 'IDRCHES Will be provjded for each of the parade route. The to Bernosky's also, after are welcome. There is no faculty division at the start buses will transport students the parade. Individual cars charge here. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lakehead University Collection Description An account of the resource Photographs from Lakehead University's history: people, events, and campus. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Winter Carnival Schedule of Events Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource Schedule of events for a Lakehead Winter Carnival. (Undated, but likely late 1960s.) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1967 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Canada - Ontario - Port Arthur https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/092d2787f23e277df593b1a735d9f532.pdf 009b166b2653bcda72d661344ab948f9 PDF Text Text /. NA Of THE PRESENTS THE "JUST SOCIETY'' NATIVE a nd WHITE ? . I I DEC. 6 ~ 7 FEATURING: ELOQUENT NATIVE LEADERS PROMINENT POLI CIANS INFLUENTIAL CIV L SERVANTS. ,I I An experimen! in o.warene-ss �ATIVE CUL'IURAL COMMITTEE of the ALMA MATER SOCIETY LAmlIW> UNIVERSITY Fri~, December 6 - Satur~, December 7 "THE JUST SOCIETr" - NATIVE AND WHITE? Tbe L&kehead University Alma Mater Society's concern about the Canadian Native situation has culminated thus far in the establishment of the autonOllOus Native cultural Committee. It is composed of both Indian and non-Indian members. 'lbere is constant publicity of the soci&l., political and economic disparities between the native and his Canadian counterpart. There is a rapidly growing native movement towards an equal place in society. There is an increasing militancy developing in the demands made by Indians and Eskimos. These factors, among others, have resulted for the most part in an interested but confused public. The committee has involved itself in formulating an educational program designed not only for the student body but for the community at large. The program will hapetu.l.ly-provide . along vith its informative role, a forum upon which the beginning of a cross-cultural, communicative and constructive dialogue will be based. As within any ethnic group, there is a spectrum of views. The result is that there are certain reactions to specific opinions, whether they be hostile or supportive. It is a fact, however, that one cannot understand a minority movement together with its causes, goals and nature until the individual has been exposed to some or all of the prevailing ideas in the spectrum. II �-- AG~'"NDA -- Friday, r')cer er 6 - Saturd(1y, December 7, 1968. Non-students Students Registration Fee (includini: hanquetl :~J.SC :~.2 .oo F'HIDAY: 2 JOO P.M. - Mary Carpenter - Alan A. Borovoy 5:00 P.M. - Registration 7 :00 P.H. - Gene Hhemune, E'.Jrncntive memher of N;iLoncil Prorres~ ',r? !"'rir::;erv:,tive Party. SATURDAY: 9:JO A.M. - Cott,e and rerietration 10:00 A.M. - Native adult panel: Gane Bannon - Fort, ·-.Ti lliarn Hect.or Kinp - J\rTT':~tronp ErnHt Benedict - St. Re~ie Jack Y.. Doner - Kenora Father W11. Maurice - F'ort Willi..im 12iOO - Luncheon and informal ~athering 1:00 P.M. - Representative trom C;ntario IJerartment nf Education 2:30 P.M. - Native Youth Panel Alat Chartrnnd - w'innipep Lloyd Caibaioeai - ~enora Jeanette Corbiere - Toronto l$&8C Benuliau - ~innipeg Geor~e S111nrd - Fort Arthur Marlene FierTe - Port Arthur 5 :00 F .M. - S\.UftJlllU'7 and closing coMJnents - lfln 1\c r i=~nz i e ( >tOCh(i;"1 le Loll~re) 6130 P .M. - Cocktail hour 7:30 P.M. - Bu.fret Surrer Gueet Speaker - !U>bert Andras, Liberal , • I-u • �DRAMATIS PERSOKRAE MARY CARPENTER-Eskimo t'r011 Inuvik, North West Territories -2nd year student at Western Univeraity -outspoken against govemJ19nt•• "rape of the north" ALLAN BOROVOY -Jewish lawyer -deals with minority groups -act 1ve Yi th the Indian p,ople GENE RHEAUME -executive member of the RationtJ. Progressive Conservative Party -well informed ab<;)ut Indian probleu GSD B.ADO!f -local Ojib""1 Indian -outspoken individual regar41q local In41ana HEC'roR KIIG -spokeaman for Arutrons Indiao A.aaociation -fighting tor equality tor tbe Ind.1u people ERBST BDEDICT -Iroquois Indian from St. Regu ReHZ"ff -director of Dldiu tn.veUi»g college which will be available to all Indian people accroaa Caada - ~ collage vW. begin in April of 1969 JACI DORR -lawyer rrom Kenora -cases deal prillari~ vitb IIJJ>.orlty groups -consultant tor vvtou1 "'-rn• in the Kenora area -wll-a.tormed regarding the Indian situation FATHER MAURICB -Jesuit Misaionary workiDg on the local re1erw for 15 years employed as a coat.Ulity Den101)91nt Otticer by the Depart•nt of Indian Affairs- ALAB CHARTRAID - - &et1wf··tn Mallitoba Aaaoc1at1on ot ff&tive Youth :-rndian troa Winnipeg LLOYD CAIBAIOSAI -Indian 6011 SUclbUJ7 area -present~ f5111Plore4 with the Alcobol.1111 and Drug Addiction Research Foundation in Kenora JEAlfETTE CORBDRE -Indian girl 6011 WikwnikoDg on IIIDitouliD Island -former Canadian IDditlii Prince•• -works with Toronto Ill411D Pr:le114ahip Center ISAAC BEAULIEU -Indian troa S.41' Bay R9Mrft north ot Wimlipeg -graduate ot Ottawa un1~r1ity - preaeotly' working on hi• Maaters in Economics 0 at the University of Nuitoba -economic consultant tr,r var1CNI NMrvea 1D Manitoba �GEORGE SIMARD -Indian from Red Lake -presently employed by the Company of Young Canadians as a consultant MARLED PIERRE -Young Indian girl - active in Indian Youth Friendship Center in Port Arthur IAN McKENZIE -instructor at Indian Institute of Rochdale College in Toronto -active in the Indian-Eskimo Aasociation ROBERT ANDRAS, MP -MP tor Port Arthur -Minister without portfolio working with the Hon. Mr. Jean Cretien, Minister ot Indian Affairs and Northern Development WALTER CURRIE -representative from the Ontario Department of Education -Assistant Superintendent, Supervisor Section � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lakehead University Collection Description An account of the resource Photographs from Lakehead University's history: people, events, and campus. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Program for 1968 event: Native Culture Committee of the Lakehead University Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource Native Culture Committee presents The "Just Society" conference. Documents include agenda and information for this event held December 1968. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Canada - Ontario - Port Arthur https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/fce4db93896f540563b14ea10fcb4e3d.pdf b2d928ee70f31e1bb71d36236adf98ca PDF Text Text ' ADDRESS TO FACULTY OF SCIENCE BY JOHN HART A PR IL 11, 19 6 8 ti b �ADDRESS TO FACULTY OF SCIENCE it is with considerable trepidation that I attempt a "state of the union 11 message The end of the year is a good time as any to think about the past and the future of the Faculty and the University o There are a number of things that I want to say, some of them very much on the minds of all of uso O I would like to recaU the faculty meeting of September 24, 1965 o It might be worthwhile to have a look at the goals that were defined in the minutes of that meeting; see how many of them have been achieved, and define realistic targets that we should aim for over the next two yearso First, researcho The aim was, that we should develop the small research programs that were already in existence; add to them, and, in particular, approach NoRoCo and other co-operaUve groups for fundso We now have lively research programs ~n every department, and for two years in success~on have received more than $100,0000 in grants from N. RoC. and other bodieso The Department of Biology have, or are just on the point of having a co-operative project with all the Universities of Ontario and other institutions in the Prov~nce in the Research Station at Black Sturgeon Falls .. Second, but not less important, teachingo An attempt would be made to initiate honors work in all existing departments. Honors programs are now well established in most departments in the Faculty of Science. Third, graduate work. It was proposed that the Masters program should begin shortly after the Honors program had been initiated. There are now Masters students in most departments, and PhoDo students are also working in the laboratories of the Facu I ty. Fourth, Computer Science. The addition of Computer Science faculty members and equipment was mentioned as a likely developmenL We have an Honors program in Computer Science and a computer that is being used ~nter alia by the Faculty of Science for teaching and research 0 The faculty, demonstrators, instructors, technicians and the administration have pulled together magniflcently to achieve this almost incredible development (without, incidentally, the benefit of the long-range planning teams that other new universities appointed long before they even opened their doors) o The University, I trust, appreciates the strength and expertise of this Faculty and wH I continue to give it the support and encouragement it deserves. The time is ripe for a re~assessment of our goals and a personal statement by me, to perhaps be regarded as semi-official, might be useful o After all, it is two and a half years si nee a similar statement was made .. Teaching .. A Dean has to balance research versus teaching. He has to do �it in various ways--by ~ndhdduals, by departments, or even by Faculties; and ~tis a lucky Dean j ndeed who is able to get somebody who i s a first-class teacher, enjoys teach !ng 600 first-year students, organises the teaching laboratories, undertakes wonderful new research and at the same time, manages to serve on fifteen different comrrinttees In practke, therefore, what a Dean looks for is a balance between var~ous ind~viduals; and during the appo~nting procedure he examines with some care the relationship between the present state of the Department and the applicant's published works, his teaching performance 0 I try to assess where particular strengths are needed .. 1t is not al ways easy; sometimes we over-estimate and sometimes we under-esUmate. The advice of the Chairmen and other faculty members is a help to the Dean in making this assessment, particularly when there is doubt as to whether a man is suitable for elementary teaching 0 0 The AO U C C .. , ~ might interject ,, has made a number of statements about univers~ty teaching that are equivalent to being ~n favour of academ~c motherhood.. One statement, in partkuiar 1 which we often hear band ied about is that the top people (w~thout defining who these top people are) should be teaching first-year courses.. This i flnd naive in the extreme 0 First year courses are important: we al I realise thaL But 8 on the other hand, an expert in a discipline teach~ng a first year course may turn out to be disastrous: he simply may not have the flanr or the vocabulary to inspire his studentso My views about the teaching of these important year one courses are simple .. Instructors who undertake them try, if it is at al I possible, to get to the level of the students, hold their attention and keep them busy with relevant work: some instructors, as they themselves are aware 8 lack knowledge of rudimentary instructional techniques and we might be able to supply them with some expert guidance during the early part of each academic year .. G 0 The Dean has the problem of deciding how many instructors should be allocated to a Departmentu how many people he should ask the President for.. We have to examn(le the criterion to be used for assessing the size of a departmental staff: I have made one point repeatedly, which is that the number of instructors in a Faculty does not depend merely upon the number of students.. The number of instructors depends uponthe number of courses being offered, and upon the amount of work other than direct classroom instruction that a faculty member ~s undertak~ng This means that any formula used internally or externally must be non=linear and must be heavHy weighted in favour of the smal I Department, the small Faculty and the small Un!versity .. Formula financing on a linear basjs is irrational. O The Committee on University Affa~rs, through its Chairman has rnad,e some most extraordinary statements 0 One of them proposes a model for a university of the size of Lakehead whkh is clearly, to the dimmest intellect, unworkable .. The figures on which the proposal is based, however one tries to rationalise them, are absurd; the administration, and in parUcular, the President, are losing no opportunity to point out the absurdity of these figures. At the last meeting of the Council of Deans of Arts and Science of the Universities of Ontario, I think the new universities, for the flrst time, made their col leagues in the older institutions understand something of their problems .. �Part of my responsibility is to keep the demands of individual departments down to a reasonable size that I can justify to the President and the Senate o I have to ask that the number of options be kept down: I include, not only the number of options within a department, but duplication between departments and between Faculties Whatever formula we use, we cannot afford to permit two instructors to duplicate classes that are relatively small, Leo to classes with enrolments well below the maximum (perhaps the optimum would be a better word). We ml.1st remember, al so, however regretful I y, that large first-year courses make money o The money makers are English la6, Psychology la6 and so on; which probably contribute very heavily to our grant on a formula basis, but the warn~ng has to be made that neither within this Faculty ow across the University as a whole should formulae in any way be used to determ~ ne what resources a department needs. O We need the number of instructors necessary to teach the undergraduate lecture and laboratory courses that have been approved over the past three years o We have the approval of Senate to proceed to the Masters programo I would remind you that these Masters programs would be heavy on faculty and that the Faculty stated clearly that it is my job to make representation to the President or to the Senate, or to whatever body is to decide on the distribution of funds, to ensure that these programs come to full fruitiono A Ph.Do program, which I envisage, is not heavy on staff (this may surprise the uninitiated), and once we have a good Masters program going, the staffing of the Ph.D. program will not be a serious problemo I should mention that one proposal made by the Committee on Univers~ty Affairs was that we concentrate on inter-disciplinary subjects at the undergraduate level o For example, there would be no Physics, Chemistry, but Chemical Physics, no Physics, no Biology, but Biophysics. In practice, however, a small un~versity, especially a new small university, must recognise the professional divisions that exist in the scienUflc world. These divisions are perpetuated in professional associations--the Association of Physicists, the Chemical Institute of Canada, the Institute of Electrical Engineers and so on.. We would, indeed, be foonsh to attempt to start graduating students with no clearly recogn~sed status in their discipline. I am not suggesting that inter-disciplinary subjects are to be frowned on, and like most of you I believe that the major advances lie in the interdisciplinary fields, but to suggest that we specialize in joint fields because we do not have an adequate faculty to offer each one individually is absurd .. Researcho In research, we expect to develop interdisciplinary problems, with strictly Iimited objectives.. The pulp and paper project and the Biological Field Station have involved and will continue to involve a lot of people and a lot of hard work as well. I would like to say a few words about the changing status of research in this faculty. Research needs continuous encouragement of al I kinds including a I ittle bit of need I ing and strong material support. It is always easier not to do research than to do it: it is the job of each one of us to provide this material encouragement and support. The professional status of this Faculty outside the university, as you well know, rests on your individual satisfying relationships with scientists in Canada and �-4outside Canadao These satisfying relationships develop only if reputation in a particular field is established This is true of a department, of a faculty or of a university as a wholeo In certain I imited fields, I have no doubt whatever that the staff of this university, not only is capable of international status but will achieve international status and wi II achieve it quite soon. In every other university (with perhaps one or two smal I exceptions) research is a normal function, reflected in conversation, correspondence and publication.. Teaching is not to be under-estimated: it is an equal function with the research, perhaps a little more or a little less important in various universities, but always in a Faculty of Science a normal function is research, discussed on an informal basis at least as often as teaching iso O To cover undergraduate teaching effectively, we must have instructors with wide interestso Not only do we have to have the teachers and the research workers, but within fields, we have to have people interested in the different specialities within each department so that we can truly say that our students are turned out with a good undergraduate education But, paradoxically, the best results in research often come when specialists work closely together in one fieldo The only cure is size--a srr.all faculty will be below critical mass for both teaching and research .. O Administration. In the administration there are clear weaknesses and to combat these, I would like to reiterate that we have two channels for communication .. For day-to-day administration, the channel is from the instructor to the Chairman 0 the Dean and the PresidenL I would I ike to emphasize that, attractive as such a course might appear to be at the time, a short-circuit in this system weakens it in the long run, and I would ask you to avoid a step in it only in emergencieso The second channel is the one that we are using right now--for academic matters the channel is from the instructor through the Faculty to a Senate Committee or the Senate., We have to develop this channel in the next year or two, starting with formal recognition of Faculties by the Senate: at the moment there is no such recognition., The Senate wil I consider new courses in a Faculty despite the fact that these courses have not been discussed in the Faculty itself; and I made the point, and I will continue to make it, that the opin~ons of all faculty members are valuable: often a man will spot something that has been missed by the people preparing the courses You saw two good examples of that to=day o So I look for some more formal statements as to the function of the Facultyo I have obtained from another university the constitution of a Faculty of Science which we might have time to consider next year, subsequently presenting our own constitution to the Senate for ratification e O One ward on the key to academic administration is registration, and we know that next year the registration will be far more efficiently organised than it was this year. The Calendar will be available, the regulations will be relatively well known and furthermore, the students will be aware that they have certain responsibilities. I have taken the liberty of asking Dr. Talbot and Professor Green to act as Deputy Deans at registration, and directly the new calendar comes out they will sit down and learn it from cover to cover. Their signatures on the forms wi II be approval of a student in a course. The only students that come to me will be the extremely difficult cases that they feel they would rather not rule on. �-5I would like to make a plea at this time for restraint in the proliferation of our regulations: they should be kept si mple o It is easy to pass a motion requiring a student to meet yet another criterion: it is quite another matter to ensure that he meets iL We have a Faculty of s~1ence CommJttee which is examining some of the regulations, and I hope that committee will always keep !!1 mind the necessity for cutting out, rather than instituting new regulaUons o ----------"---------Speaking more generally now, this faculty is under considerable pressure. We talk here about events that are taken as normal in other universities, as though they were quite extraordinary and abnormal. In well-established universities, it is wel I recognised that there are imbalances in budgets and course loads, and horror of horrors I there are even imbalances in salaries: these facts of I ife, regarded as perfectly normal at the larger more established institutions o I cannot pass this opportunity without mentioning the documents presented by the senior members of the Faculty of Arts. A number of staUstics are mentioned in those documents. Some of them are correct and some of them are wrong; but that is not the point: the point is that no author of this document has, to my knowledge, conducted a serious study to discover whether, in fact, there is any true disparity. I hesitate to use the trite phrase, 11 1ies, damn I ies and stati sties II but the function of the University is not demonstrated by figures on a piece of paper. For example, what is the weight of a published text book? An inspired student? A perfect lecture? A model examination? What, for that matter is the weight of a laboratory course: is it the nominal one-third that we allow in the Calendar or should it have full weight as a lecture course? What is the relat~onship of the problem marking assist.ants, essay markers, laboratory markers, laboratory instructors and television assistance, what is their relationship to the faculty employed? Wnat is the function of a Dean or Chairman? Tiiehousekeeping chores alone in a science department; the ordering, the keeping of inventory, the chasing down of recalcitrant members who phone orders in without covering them with a purchase request, all these things take a phenomenal amount of time on the part of the Departmental Chairman; and these functions do not exist to the same extent in other Faculties .. One statement that I see in the brief of these senior members of the Faculty of Arts with which we can live is that the Faculty of Science should not increase its ratio of the total budget which it received. This statement! agree with and I would certainly be prepared to act upon it, though it may cause us all some hardshipo In this connection, the Senate is examining the necessity for a Budget Commit.teeo I have just one observation about the Senate Committees, and that is that we should be careful of imbreeding o In other words we should be careful that we have members on our most influential committees who have not spent an inordinately large proportion of their time in one university. We have to show our colleagues in the other Faculties and Schools three things. One is that research is essential to scientistso The second thing is that we need continual financial support from the Universityo I do not mean from other Faculties, and I eschew the use of a formula internally. It is a great pity that �-6- the Department of University Affairs, despite an explicit warn i ng that the formula should not be used for that purpose, is using it, at least implicitly, on an internal basis. The third thing, is that we need recognition that a full course load for a scientist is at the very most two courses plus one full laboratory session , and we have to discuss and discover what a full laboratory session iso What developments do I see? So far as individual faculty members are concerned, I see a change in the explicit statements to be made about tenure and promotion procedures .. Whatever these procedures may be (and this is a matter for the Faculty Association and the Administration) I mention only the academic requirements that I forsee., First, a recognition of research to be assessed on a basis not dissimilar to that used by NoR . C., Committeeso Second, but not less, recognition of outstanding teaching. By outstanding, I want you to understand exactly what I mean: I do not mean an attendance at class, a bare minimum of problems marked and handed back, presence in the office at specified times: that I do not regard as outstanding teaching., Outstanding teaching is very much more than that.. It is a concern for the student, it is an ability to be recognised as a fine teacher by ones colleagues inside and outside this university; and it is the ability (and I would not attempt to define this ability) above all to communicate enthusiasm for a subject to a student., The third requirement that we look for is administration as a proper function. In other words, if someone is working on committees and really working on them, then obviously this is a factor that must be taken seriously into account.. On the other hand, if a person is a "joiner 11 , and contributes very little, then clearly this is not a criterion that can be used by the Chairman of a Department or a Dean in making the recommendations., These are personal statements from me and no doubt there wil I be reactions to them which I look for and welcome., Our business at hand is then as follows:We have to develop our good research projects., In passing, I would like to ask you to consider whether in fact the faci I ities for research are not much better than some of you are prepared to admit. The climate for research is not just provided by the physical plant that is available: it is provided by the encouragement that senior members of the faculty give to the junior members of the faculty in conducting their research projects, and it is important that this climate should be fostered by the senior members of the departments., Second, we must continue to improve the existing undergraduate programs: immediately an instructor thinks that a course is perfect, that is the time for him to stop lecturing., More specifically, we hope to develop the Geology and Computer Science programso We have to develop and have assessed Masters programs and we must institute Ph.Do programs possibly on a co-operative basis. I have attempted to make projections for the number of faculty members �-7that we shal I need over the next few years.. These are what I would consider to be the minimum number with whom we can run the existing programs o The number of students in the faculty being forecast to double by 197 0 it turns out that the total number of faculty rise by about 37%. The faculty will rise for 1968 - 43; 1969 - 53; 1970 - 59. This is the minimum with which we can operate the present and planned programs. (The number of students will rise from 220 th i s year to 440 by 1970J Whether we can achieve even these figures under formula financing remains to Ee seen .. In closing I would just like to make one further remarko It is not trite to say that we are fighting for the University.. We are a university, we have a charter, we are required or charged with offering al I degrees-:-We need to turn our attent~on outward. The President is our official representative so far as our external administrative problems are concerned and I want not just to re-assure you but to reinforce very strongly the impression that he is doing his damnedest outside the University. In so far as he represents us administratively, it is our job to represent him academkal ly at our academic and professional meetings, and especially in the learned journals .. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lakehead University Collection Description An account of the resource Photographs from Lakehead University's history: people, events, and campus. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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