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Frank Rounds, Planing Mill

[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle ,Publishers]

Located on North Main Street, just north of the Welland river bridge, is the office, yard and planing mill of Mr. Frank Rounds, who has successfully conducted the business for upwards of twenty years. Mr Rounds deals in lumber of all kinds, dressed and undressed, also ship timber. His yard has facilities for the storage of a large amount of timber, his business in this line embracing not only Welland and county, but extends to all parts of the Dominion, and even to the States. He also deals in builder’s material of all description. The planing mill is a large two-story structure, operated by a 50 h.p. engine and is equipped with modern machinery, and has a capacity for the cutting of a million and a half feet of lumber during the season. Custom planing is  specialty. He furnishes employment to a dozen or fifteen hands.

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