Alberni Pioneer News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-04-09
issued: 1911-09-16
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note: 1 0 Alberni Pioneer # Volume 5. Port Alberni, B. C, Sept. 16, 1911. No. 6 IMPORTANT INDUSTRY IS NOW ASSURED FOR PORT ALBERNI Sawmill With Pay-roll of $8,000 per month In Town and $12,000 per month In Tributary Logging Camps Will Be In Operation Before Next Spring. A sawmill with a cutting capacity of 75,000 feet per day is to be established by the Canadian Pacific Lumber company in Port Alberni. The machinery is under order and will begin to arrive within three weeks. Twenty experienced millwrights and a staff of helpers will arrive with the first installment, and work will be prosecuted vigorously in order to have the new mill in operation before the first of February next. A shingle factory, with three machines, will also be operated by the same company. This announcement is on the authority of R. W. Gibson who is associated with M. Carlin and Thomas Meredith in control of the manufacturing concern ' which operates big mills at Port Moody and Vancouver, and recently acquired the Barclay Sound Cedar mill in this town. "Mr. Gibson was here in the early part of the week accompanied by George McAfee, general manager, and C. Dor- man, chief millwright for the company. The present Barclay Sound mill, which is slightly out of date, will be almost entirely removed. The old machinery will be sent to the junk heap, and in its place the most modern apparatus known to the trade will be installed. The work of building and installing the machinery will be under the supervision of Mr. Dorman who will return to Port Alberni by the first of next month. The plant and buildings will cost the company $50,000. When the mill is in operation, running a single ten-hour shift, per day, its pay-roll will amount to $8,000 per month. In addition to this there will be paid out for logging operations in the immediate district $12,000 per month. If the demand calls for it the mill will be run on double shift, doubling the town pay-roll. The Canadian Pacific company has a ready market for the ou…
note: Alberni Pioneer News ran from 1907-08-17 to 1912-02-24. The name was changed to Port Alberni News starting 1912-03-02.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Port Alberni (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0441083
language: English
lat: 49.234444
long: -124.805833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Port Alberni, B.C. : R. J. Burde
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text