Canadian Forestry Journal, April, ig^o. 



159 



Log Hoist and 

 Slasher House 

 at the receiving 

 end of a 

 Pulp Wood 

 Storage System. 



A travelling conveyor which is 

 moved on tracks along the face 

 of the block pile is frequently 

 used where wood is brought in on 

 cars and in some cases also for 

 stacking the wood on either side 

 of the conveyor which carried the 

 blocks to it. 



reaches the machine it is again 

 strained or "screened," to make sure 

 the fibres are of uniform size, and 

 extra water is added to get the pro- 

 per interweaving of the fibres as the 

 sheet of paper is formech 



A glance now at the picture oi a 

 ])a]ier machine will 'give the reader 

 an idea of the nature of the ai^ixira- 

 tus and the order of ex'ents. Tlu' ma- 

 chine used for making newsprint, 

 book, wra])ping and writing pajiers 

 is called tlie I'ourdinicr, from the 

 name of the two brnthcrs \\U'> bi>u;;ht 

 up and dc\i'l<«i)ed the original pat-nt 



of T.onis Robert, whose invention 

 dates from 1790, only 120 years ago. 

 In that time wonderful improvements 

 have been made, modern machines 

 making a sheet of paper 15 feet wide 

 at the rate of 650 feet or more per 

 minute. Some machines run more 

 than 800 feet per minute, and tiic 



A pretty good firm is Watch & \\'aite. 

 And another is .Attit, Karly c*v: Layte ; 

 .\nd still another is l^oo & Daire't : 



And 0110 n\ the best is (irinn Cv Bar- 

 rett. 



( ^b•lrtin'^ r.-ipyrus.) 



