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and makes a horizontal cut into the log just at the bottom of 

 the cut made by the third saw. The effect of running these 

 two saws is to rabbet out a piece, extending from the top of 

 the log to a little below the arbor of the middle saw. These 

 three larger saws are usually from 60 to 64 inches in diame- 

 ter, and mills thus arranged can cut logs eight feet in di- 

 ameter. Logs larger than that must he split. 



i: There are about forty mills engaged in cutting redwood. 

 The largest have a capacity of 75,000 to 80,000 feet per day. 

 Perhaps the average would be about 40,000 feet daily. 



" But very few, however, run all the year round, both on 

 account of the difficulty of keeping supplied with logs, and 

 because the places where many of them are situated are not 

 safe harbors for shipping in winter. As very few of the mills 

 are connected with the market by rail, nearly all the lumber 

 is transported by sail vessels. 



" The amount of redwood lumber sawed by these mills in 

 1881 was not far from 140,000,000 feet. Of this 95,000,000 

 came to the port of San Francisco, 4,500,000 feet being re- 

 shipped to New York and foreign ports. The balance of 

 45,000,000 feet manufactured was distributed to the lower 

 ports in California, Mexico, South America, Sandwich Islands, 

 Society Islands and Australia, vessels going direct from the 

 mills." 



The above repeats to a certain extent, or rather goes over 

 the same ground to be found in other pages of this book- 

 album ; still it shows the fact that all expressions of opinion 

 as to the commercial value of redwood do not materially 

 differ. 



