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tion for the sale of wood materials. For these reasons 

 the district of Briansk will be the principal centre of the 

 wood enterprise. At present there are three steam and one 

 water power sawmills : two of them are not specially for 

 sawing, but they can be applied to that purpose principally 

 they are for grinding corn. On the principal of these fabrics 

 the sawing apparatus is for two frames each of 10 saws ; 

 and for cutting off the edge there is a large saw. At the 

 other mill there are 40 saws ; here they make the same 

 sorts of timber as at the first. At the third mill there are 

 50 saws ; and the sawmill worked by water has 44 saws in 

 4 frames. The total number of logs sawn in these mills 

 is about 50,000, for the most part not longer than 3 

 fathoms, with a thickness of from 6 to 12 vershocks. Boards 

 are prepared of 1 J to 2 vershocks thick, and 7, 8, and 9 

 archines long ; and deals of vershocks thick. The pro- 

 duce is floated down the Dwina to the southern govern- 

 ments, or sent by cartage to the parts destitute of wood in 

 the governments of Kursk and Orel. With the opening of 

 the railway the produce will be sent principally by rail to 

 Orel and Kursk. The existence of sawmills, and the 

 exhaustion of neighbouring private forests, draws atten- 

 tion to the crown forests ; and the opening demand for 

 wood leads to the conclusion that it should not be 

 offered in greater quantity than the demand. At the 

 forementioned sawmills the prices for boards are 



9 archines long, and 2 vershocks thick, 60 kopecs. 



2 



2 



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U 



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50 

 45 

 35 

 30 

 25 

 18 

 15 

 12 



'The average width of these sorts is 6 vershocks ; when 

 wider 12 kopecs is added for each vershock, so that up to 



