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THOROLD’S ONE MILLION DOLLAR PAPER MILL
To Have Largest Paper Machines Ever Built
[People’s Press, 28 May 1912]
Thorold, May 25- The contractor for the erection of the buildings required by the Ontario Paper Company, Ltd., was let today to the Lackawanna Bridge Company of Buffalo, N.Y. It is expected that ground will be broken in a few weeks time, at the site recently acquired by the company near lock No. 25, new Welland canal. The citizens of Thorold are greatly pleased at having this large pulp and paper located here, and for which a fixed assessment bylaw, n the name of Mr. James Battle, as trustee, was voted on and carried in Thorold township, on February 28th.
Mr. Warren Curtis, jr., of Corinth, N.Y., the president and general manager of the company, has opened the company’s office here, and the construction of the mills will be completed at the earliest possible date.
The mills, which will manufacture news print paper exclusively, will be equipped with a ground wood mill of sufficient capacity to supply two two hundred inch paper machines, which will turn out from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty tons of paper per 24 hours. These machines are the largest paper machines ever built, and are well under construction by the Pusey and Jones Company, of Wilmington, Del.
The power of this plant will be entirely electric, and will require eight to then thousand horse power, which will be supplied by the Ontario Power Company of Niagara Falls, Ont.
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