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Page 36
... early as 1663 , a sawmill was erected on Salmon Falls River in New Hampshire , and in 1706 no less than seventy were running on the Piscataqua . This , however , was not what the home govern- 36 North American Forests and Forestry.
... early as 1663 , a sawmill was erected on Salmon Falls River in New Hampshire , and in 1706 no less than seventy were running on the Piscataqua . This , however , was not what the home govern- 36 North American Forests and Forestry.
Page 39
... sawmill , to the disgust of the Surveyor - General , who soon came to put all kinds of obstacles in the way of new settlements , and so added to his unpopularity . The making of tar and pitch never amounted to much in New England or the ...
... sawmill , to the disgust of the Surveyor - General , who soon came to put all kinds of obstacles in the way of new settlements , and so added to his unpopularity . The making of tar and pitch never amounted to much in New England or the ...
Page 52
... sawmill was shut down and the whole male population went to the woods to continue the search , while the women were busy providing food for the searchers . All efforts were vain . A band of tramping Winnebago Indians who happened to be ...
... sawmill was shut down and the whole male population went to the woods to continue the search , while the women were busy providing food for the searchers . All efforts were vain . A band of tramping Winnebago Indians who happened to be ...
Page 55
... sawmills pro- vided all that was needed for home consumption in each neighborhood . The country people lived to a great extent in log houses of their own fashioning and considered sawed lumber as a luxury beyond their reach . Only along ...
... sawmills pro- vided all that was needed for home consumption in each neighborhood . The country people lived to a great extent in log houses of their own fashioning and considered sawed lumber as a luxury beyond their reach . Only along ...
Page 66
... sawmills causes admiration and astonishment to the foreign expert . When one visits our lumber towns he may at first wonder at the apparent waste , and ascribe it to crude methods , when he sees the immense accumulation of waste ...
... sawmills causes admiration and astonishment to the foreign expert . When one visits our lumber towns he may at first wonder at the apparent waste , and ascribe it to crude methods , when he sees the immense accumulation of waste ...
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