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hauling season, and about three hundred men. The resources 

 for lumber were reported by the most intelligent operators as 

 equal to those of any lumber district in the state of equal size. 



In the adjoining town of Franklin five saw-mills were report- 

 ed, situate on small streams, doing a large business. These mills 

 are said to manufacture about three million feet, worth eight dol- 

 lars per M., giving twenty-four thousand dollars. 



About halfway between the Narraguagues and the Penobscot 

 Rivers, and upon an almost exact parallel with the latter, runs 

 Union River, which disembogues into an arm of Frenchman's 

 Bay. On the banks of this river, near its mouth, stands the vil- 

 lage of Ellsworth, which is decidedly one of the most beautiful 

 places in Maine, and in the immediate vicinity of which the mills 

 are principally located ; in all, about twenty-five. 



The annual amount of long lumber manufactured here is about 

 sixteen million feet, worth some hundred and twelve thousand 

 dollars ; the aggregate amount of the various kinds of short lum- 

 ber annually produced is worth some sixteen thousand dollars 

 more. 



From four to five hundred men, and about the same number 

 of oxen and horses, are employed in the lumbering business. Lous 

 are driven from two to forty miles. The territory through which 

 this stream flows is well timbered, and affords an abundant sup- 

 ply of logs. 



