Canadian Forestrij Journal, April, 1918 



1629 



A "track automobile" of the Dominion Forestry Brancii in Alberta, showing the motor- 

 driven speeder and the velocipede. * 



a by-product in the hardwood dis- 

 tillation industry and burned under 

 the boiler as a waste product, can 

 be used in the oil flotation process 

 on equal terms with the expensive 

 pine oil. At present the hard wood 

 distillation industry in Canada uses 

 about five hundred cords of wood 

 per day, and as two and two-fifth 

 gallons of creosote oil are extracted 

 from each cord, it means that Canada 

 has been producing and throwing 

 away as waste about 1,200 gallons 

 per day of the very material required 

 to operate the oil flotation process. 



Success in Practice 



What the mining men think of 

 the successful termination of this 

 search is shown by a statement 

 made by one who most actively 

 interested himself in this effort to 

 find a new oil, Mr. Arthur A. Cole, 

 Mining Engineer of the Timiskaming 

 and Northern Ontario Railway and 

 President of the Mining Institute. 

 Mr. Cole says of the new reducing 

 agent: — 



"A run was made for a whole 

 week, pine oil being entirely cut 

 out and its place taken by hardwood 

 creosote oil. The results obtained 

 in this mill test corresponded with 



the laboratory results, proving con- 

 clusively that hardwood creosote oil 

 can be made an absolute substitute 

 for pine oil in the treatment of 

 Cobalt ores. The only work now 

 remaining to be accomplished before 

 the full benefit of the results of this 

 investigation is realized, is for the 

 hardwood distilling companies to es- 

 tablish a uniform method of handling 

 this hardwood creosote oil so that 

 they can turn out a uniform product. 

 We will then have the highly sat- 

 isfactory result from this investiga- 

 tion, of a waste product from an 

 already established Canadian in- 

 dustry taking the place of a high- 

 priced American product. At the 

 present time there is sufficient of this 

 hardwocd creosote oil being pro- 

 duced not only to look after the 

 present Canadian situation but also 

 to allow for considerable expansion 

 for export." 



Canada is at war and needs every 

 available ounce of silver to make 

 silver bullets to help in the winning. 

 She has the resources and the brains, 

 and by such combinations of science 

 and industry as outlined above, there 

 will result the largest possible, most 

 efficient and most economical devel- 

 opment of our natural resources. 



