THIRTY TEARS A HUNTER. 



agreed upon, but] on the contrary he has often made 

 np, out of his own purse, for the mishaps of those in 

 his employ. Upon one occasion he advanced seven 

 hundred dollars more than had been agreed upon for 

 running two million feet of boards to Louisville. He 

 never hoards his money, but keeps it constantly in 

 circulation, building mills, sawing and buying lum- 

 ber and running it from the head waters of the Alle- 

 gany to points on the Ohio and to New Orleans. He 

 built a flouring mill on the Connewango, seven miles 

 from Warren. At the same' place he also built a 

 gang sawmill, several single sawmills, and a railroad 

 for conveying his timber, together with the mansion 

 where he resides, which is the most elegant and com- 

 modious residence in the county. Besides these, the 

 aggregate cost of which could not have been less 

 than thirty thousand dollars, he has built a flouring 

 mill at Kennedyville, costing four thousand dollars, 

 and two double sawmills nine miles below Olean. 

 He was also a partner with Henry Saxton, in build- 

 ing on the Indian Reservation a mill costing between 

 eight and ten thousand dollars, and a mill above 

 the State line, on the Allegany river, which cost some 

 ten thousand dollars. When his contracts have ex- 

 pired, the money is always ready, and he has often 

 advanced it before, when he thought the work was 

 progressing properly. I was once present at Louis- 

 ville when he settled with his men for running 

 eighteen million feet of lumber, two millions of it 

 having been rafted by me. I received a dollar and 

 seventy-five cents per thousand, and some of thfl 



