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  • American Lumber Mill, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1912)
  • Short | Documentary, Short
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American Lumber Mill, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1912)
Short | Documentary, Short
In this film is shown operations at the largest lumber mill in the world, with a capacity of 300,000 feet of lumber per day; a panoramic view of the pond where the logs, which average 30 inches in diameter, are unloaded from the cars and ...See moreIn this film is shown operations at the largest lumber mill in the world, with a capacity of 300,000 feet of lumber per day; a panoramic view of the pond where the logs, which average 30 inches in diameter, are unloaded from the cars and stored until needed, from whence they are poled to the flume and, floated to the log-jack which automatically picks them up, carrying them to the cutting frame where they are sawed into planks of various dimensions, thence to the sorting table which sorts the different sizes preparatory to being conveyed to the immense yards for piling, where 23,000,000 feet of white pine lumber, valued at $500,000, is stored in piles. The creosoting of railroad ties is also shown, a process which increases the life and usefulness of the ties to fifty years, whereas, without this treatment, which is accomplished under a pressure of 175 pounds per square inch for six hours in massive steel tubes, the average life would be but five years. The capacity of this plant is 1,000,000 ties per year. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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David Horsley
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Updated Apr 27, 1912
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Apr 27, 1912 (United States)

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