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Daily News article31 December 1937
Norris Arm, Newfoundland, Canada
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Daily News, December 31, 1937Saunders, Howell and Co. Ltd. Have Busy Year
Over 900 men Now Employed By Firm in Mills and Woods
Norris Arm
"To meet the growing demand for stocks in the Western section of the country, the mill at Norris Arm was taken over by Saunders, Howell and Co. Ltd. in 1913. Ever since then the mill has continued to operate with either a lumber or pulpwood cut. The capacity of this mill is 2,000,000 feet of sawn lumber annually and employs on an average 100 men. During the past season the cut has been increased from 15, 000 to 20, 000 cords of pulpwood, with a corresponding increase in the number of logs all of which has meant employment for 300 men throughout the cutting period. This wood is drawn to tide water and loaded on cars for shipment to the AND Co. at Grand Falls. Some 2,000 cars are employed in transporting this cut to the manufacturing plant. From the Norris Arm branch, shipments of lumber are made by rail to all points connected by the Newfoundland Railway"
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