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Sat 24 Feb 1912 - Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962)
Page 6 - Blue Mountain Timber
Blue Mountain Timber
BIG INDUSTRIAL PROJECT AT
FAULCONBRIDGE.
Faulconbridge, on the Blue Moun-
tains, will shortly be the centre of
industrial activity. The huge tim-
ber forests which lie in the Grose
Valley are to be exploited, not for
house-building material, but for use
in furniture 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
Company, which exports the products
of its forests, mills, and factories to
all parts of the world. The Defiance
Cabinet and Chair-making Company
carried on by Mr. G., Mitchell, of
Sydney, who has had a large ex-
perienco of the business in all parts
of the world, has acquired large
areas of tirnber country, and the
machinery will shortly be erected.
This belt of forest contains mount-
tain ash, sassafras, coach wood, wal-
nut, hickory, mahogany, myrtle, and
many other timbers. Blue Mountain
timber is of the highest and best
quality, and it does not pipe, so that
the best of material will be available
for the enterprise. A railroad has
been laid into the heart of this belt
of trees, and the logs will be sent
down to the mill, which is not far
from the' railway station.
One machine will cut off and tenon
the chair pieces at an incredible rate
of speed, and an automatic double
action boring machine will bore the
front legs and back posts of 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
the assembling of the parts for the
Sydney factory, will mean a big re
duction in freight and other charges,
and consequently a reduced price to
the purchaser. The goods imported
from America and Canada carry a
duty of 30 por cent.
Australian hardwood timbers are
known in other parts of the world;
but when the proposed industry gets
properly going other woods, superior
in many respects to those used in
other countries for furniture and cab-
inet work, will be equally well sought
after.
The work of preparing and equip-
ping the Faulconbridge area has been
going on for two years and a half.
It will not be long now before the
whirr of the machinery is heard.
" Sun."