1900 Canadidii Forcslri) Journal, Scplcnihi'r, 191S 



Huge Losses from Logs Sinking 



Durini? the proi>R'ss oi the Cana- 

 dian Newsprint inquiry at Ottawa 

 recently, mii^h inlormation ol 

 interest to lumbermon was given by 

 expert witnesses in regard to loss 

 through sinkage on river drives. A 

 record for two years produced bv 

 Mr. D. J. Sails, of the Howard Smith 

 Company, for drives on the Chaud- 

 iere River route, showed 25,690 cords 

 put into the water and 22,948 taken 

 out, a loss of 2,742 cords. On the 

 Etchemin River 11,777 cords were 

 put in and 10,266 cords taken out, a 

 loss of 910 cords, or 8.2 per cent. 

 Mr. Sails said that sinkage was always 

 a little higher than ten per cent, and 

 sometimes reached 12 per cent. This 

 applied to four-foot pulpwood spruce 

 and balsam. 



John R. Booth estimated his sink- 

 age loss at fifteen per cent. He has 

 allowed this percentage for sinkage 

 for the last forty-five years. The 



drive averages .')0() miles and lakes 

 from two to three years to reach the 

 mill. Mr. H. I. Thomas, also of Jolm 

 R. Booth, testified that if small logs 

 were driven the sinkage would 

 amount to twenty-five per cent. 



Mr. Charles Dougherty, secretary 

 of the Rideau Lumber Company, 

 Ottawa, showed statements indicat- 

 ing losses from 22.53 to 24.79 per 

 cent. The lower figure applied to 

 spruce logs only. The drive took two 

 years and was about 150 miles. The 

 figures were obtained by taking the 

 difference between the number of 

 logs put into the water and those 

 which reached the mill. 



Mr. S. A. Sabbaton, assistant 

 manager of the Laurentide Company, 

 produced a statement covering the 

 years back to 1906. The average 

 yearly loss was nine and two-tenths 

 per cent. 



Mr. Alexander MacLaurin, of the 



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