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Mon 12 Feb 1912 - The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954)
Page 9 - BLUE MOUNTAIN TIMBER.
BLUE MOUNTAIN TIMBER
BIG INDUSTRIAL PROJECT AT
FAULCON BRIDGE.
Faulconbrldge, on the Blue Mountains, will
shortly be the centre of industrial activity.
The huge timber forests which lie in the
Grose Valley are to be exploited, not for
house-building material, but for use in fur
niture-making. Within a very short period
mills will be running turning out 2400 chair-
pieces every hour, or 19,000 a day, made from
our own timbers — the best in the world. A
rival to the Canadian Chair-making Com
pany, which exports the products ot its
forests, mills, and factories to all parts of
the world. The Defiance Cabinet and Chair
Company carried on by Mr. G. Mitchell, of
Sydney, iwho has had n large experience of
the business in all parts of the world, has
acquired large areas of timber country, and
th_- machinery will shortly be ertc.ed.
This belt of forest contains mountain ash,
sassafras, coach wood, walnut, hickory, ma
hogany, myrtle, and many other timbers.
Blue Mountain timber Is of tho highest and
best quality, and It does not pipe, so that
tho best of material will be available for the
enterprise. A railroad has been laid right
into the heart of this belt of trees, and the
logs will bo sent down to the mill, which Is
not. far from the railway station.
One machine Will cut off and tenon the
1 chair pieces at an incredible rate of speed,
and 'an automatic double-action boring ma
chine will bore the front legs and back posts
ot modern-design chairs, both sides at once,
in one action, at the rate of 16 per minute.
Cutting the timber and working it on the
spot, only leaving tho assembling of the
parts for tho Sydney, factory, will mean a
big reduotion In freight and other charges,
ana consequently a reduced price to the pur
chaser. Tho goods imported from America
and Canada carry a duty of 30 per cent.
Australian hardwood timbers are known in
ether parts of the world; but when the pro
posed industry gets properly going other
woods, superior in many respects to those
used in other conntrico for furniture and
cabinet work; will bo equally well sought
after.
The work of preparing and equipping the
Faulconbridge area has been going on for
two years and a half. It will not bo long
now before the whirr of the machinery Is
heard.