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settled regions where the demand for kimber is small and whence 

 there is no way of getting lumber to a larger market. The small 

 sawmill here performs a strictly local service, and will find field 

 for this service indefinitely in rural and mountain districts. A 

 very permanent field for the small mill exists in those mountainous 

 regions characterized by rough topography, where logging units 

 are small and the timber is with difficulty accessible. Here, the 

 absence of drivable streams, and the broken and difficult nature 

 of the country forbids the hauling of logs to a centrally located 

 large sawmill. The large mill with steam machinery for logging 

 and lines of railroad into the timber will not come into these reg- 

 ions until communities grow furnishing extensive markets, or 

 until railroads are built affording means of getting the lumber to 

 outside markets. There are regions of this kind in the New Eng- 

 land Mountains, and especially in the Blue Mountains of Eastern 

 Oregon, which will remain sparsely settled for a long time. In 

 the countryside of New England, and in suburban communities, 

 are areas of woodland oftentimes in small, detached bodies, as 

 well as in more extensive tracts. It will hardly be practical for 

 the large mill in a commercial center to reach out hither and 

 yon for these small batches of timber, but the small portable mill 

 can well reach out to the smaller while operating the larger stands. 

 These areas of woodland will never be more extensive, but will, 

 for a long time, remain as they are, and in many regions, it is 

 safe to say, will always be woodland. The reforestation of waste 

 land will extend the field of action for the small mill. 



A small mill can be maintained by regulated and sustained yield 

 from timber land of these classes, and I conclude that the small 

 sawmill has and will continue to have a wide range of usefulness 

 for the purposes suggested, especially in the populated section 

 of New England, where woodland is in small bodies. 



