I) M. CYPRIEN FORTIN (2) M. FERDINAND LEDUC

HOWARD SMITH PAPER MILLS LIMITED(2

Few industrial concerns can boast a more progressive, successfull or steadier growth than that of Howard Smith Paper Mills, Limited, founded some twenty years ago by Mr. C. Howard Smith, Président of the Company. This success has been made possible by a well managed organization, tenaciously carrying out a well defined policy. From the time of the installation of their first papcr machine at Beauharnois, Québec, to the

eighth machine now being installed at Crabtree Mills, Que., uQuality" has been preached and practised.

Today this Company i s producing approximately on hundred tons of high grade paper a day.

At the Beauharnois Division, where the manufacture of paper was started in 1912 on an 86 inch Fourdrinier machine, there are now two machines in opération. The recently installed 88 inch Fourdrinier, the first paper machine to be made in Canada, was built by the Dominion Engineering Works

(1) En 1907, lors d'une visite des Honorables Allard & Weir aux industries de Beauharnois, la Star Iron employait 130 ouvriers, et coulait 12 tonnes de fonte par jour.

(2) Les pages qui suivent sont extraites de la revue Pulp and Lurriber Magazine, (No. de juin.)

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of Lachine, Que. Thèse two machines are producing twenty tons daily of tub-sized, loft dried, Bond and Ledger Papers K and High Class Stationery Papers.

The mill is situated on the shores of the beautiful Lake St. Louis, which is a broadening of the St. Lawrence river. It is an idéal location for paper-making, with an abundant supply of pure crystal water, so essential to the manufacture of high grade papers, for which the Howard Smith Paper Mills, Limited, hâve been renowned.

In building this mill the utmost care was taken to provide every facility for the economical handling of stock and to incorporate the most modem and approved features. The equipment is of the latest and most up-to-date design that can possible be obtained to produce the highest grades of tub-sized, loft dried, papers. Electricity is used as the motive power, each group of machinery being driven by a separate motor.

An auxiliary steam plant has been installed that nothing may interfère with the continuous running of the mill.

No détail has been overlooked in order to secure absolute cleanliness of the product. To this end copper has been used for the water and stock piping as well as the lining of the beaters. Particular attention has been given to the rag department.

The beater room is equipped with ten eighteen hundred pound Jones beaters and six washers, two Jordans and a Lannoy pulper. Of late the company hâve made extensive altérations to the lof ts and drying rooms and are installing a Barber Air Dryer.

The Drainers, Rotary boilers, Filter plant, etc., are of the most modem construction, the latter having a capacity of three million gallons of water a day. This mill is served by

sidings that connect with the Grand Trunk Railway System and New-York Central Railroad, and is about twenty miles from Montréal.

The Crabtree Division

The Crabtree Mill is situated on the Lac Oureau river, about thirty miles from Montréal on the Canadian Northern Railway Une. The company hère own a water power capable of a minimum development of 5,000 H. P. This mill was built especially to take care of the Sulphite Bond business, and at présent is producing twenty tons per day of this paper. A second machine is now being installed which will double this production. In building this mill the same care exercised throughout as in the building of the Beauharnois Plant; the most modem and improved machinery for making this grade of paper was installed. Particular attention was given to the économie and careful handling of the stock to assure a clean, strong sheet at a minimum cost, and in making this grade exclusively an exceptionally uniform and well formed sheet is tumed out.

The présent machine is a one hundred inch Bertram and the second machine now being installed is a Black Clawson ninety inch, with twenty-four driers. In the beater room are nine 1,250 Ib. beaters and two Jordan engines. The finishing room is equipped with nine rotary cutters, three guillotine cutters, and super-calenders.

. At this division, the Company hâve recently opened an elaborate Club House for their employées, in which they hâve bowling alleys, pool and billiard tables, card rooms, reading rooms, and a large lecture room, for socials and dances. In this Club House during the daytime a school is conducted for the children of the village by a highly trained and efficient teacher. This company also own sufficient

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Chief Officers — Officiers Supérieurs (1) Mr. Howard Smith, Président of Howard Smith Paper Mills, Ltd. — (2) Mr. H. Crabtree, sec.-treas.

(3) Mr. H. C. Courtney, manager.

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land, located around this mill, to aïlow for the development of this village to a large extent and along the best Unes. The houses are ail being erected by the Company and are the last word in style and comfort.

Cornwall Division

This Division has been making paper since 1887, and was taken over by the Howard

four super-calenders, the widest of which takes a fifty-two inch sheet.

At this division the Company are operating a sulphite mill with three digesters now producing fifty thousand pounds of pulp per day, cooked especially for the grades of paper mode in this mill. Extensive altérations are now under way to increase the production of paper and pulp from thèse mills. High

HOWARD SMITH PAPER MILLS, LIMITED

Mills at Beauharnois. — Moulins de Beauharnois.

Smith Paper Mills, Limited, last year.

It is situated at Cornwall, Ont., approximately sixty-seven miles west to Montréal and connected with the latter by steamship and by the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific Railway Unes.

This mill has four Fourdrinier machines, one seventy-two inch, two eighty-two inch, and one ninety inch, seventeen beaters, and

Grade Text and Antique Papers, Stationery Papers, Bristols and Bonds will be the Unes manufactured at this Division, the production of which will be in the neighborhood of fifty tons per day.

The three divisions are at présent working up to full capacity endeavoring to meet the exceptionally heavy demand for paper for both the domestic and export orders, and notwith-

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standiîig the heavy bookings, the quality is bcing maintained.

Fine papers are not manufactwed by perfect machinery and formula alone. Expert human knouiedge and judgment are responsible for the résulte, the uniform and high class products, and the progress of the Howard Smith Paper Mills, Limited, speak for the skill and efficiency of the organization. To-day the Howard Smith Paper Mills, are one of the largest High Grade Paper Manufacturers in the world.

La Compagnie de papier Howard Smith a été fondée il y a une vingtaine d'années. Sous l'active poussée de son président, M. Howard Smith, elle n'a cessé de faire d'extraordinaires progrès. Depuis 1912 la compagnie a à Beauharnois un moulin à papier qui est une source de richesse pour le commerce local. La compagnie a aussi des moulins à Crabtree et à Cornwall.

Le moulin de Beauharnois a deux machines et produit vingt tonnes de papier par jour. La compagnie s'efforce de procurer à ses nombreux employés les meilleures conditions sanitaires possibles, et leur assure des salaires rémunérateurs qui donnent une abondante aisance à notre population.

Beauharnois a eu quelques autres manufactures, dont une manufacture de presses à foin, tenue par M. A. Legault; une manufacture de cercueils par MM. Manny et Bourgie; quelques manufactures de voitures, par MM. Toussaint Rochon, André Leduc, Wilbrod Bourdon; une manufac-

ture de meubles, par M. Oct. Laurin (1890- 1901). Une manufacture d'articles de cuir, la Progressive Leather Goods Co.,{l) est en pleine activité.

Une manufacture qui a aussi son importance est l'établissement de M. Emery Poirier, fabricant de yachts et chaloupes; M. Poirier est reconnu comme l'un des plus habiles chaloupiers de la province; son industrie n'a cessé d'être des plus prospères.