28 The Forests of America 



came into use, and at last the great band saws, 

 such as are seen in all large mills to-day. A few 

 hundred feet of lumber was as much as an old- 

 style mill could cut in a day ; now there are mills 

 that saw a million feet. 



Here again the American pioneer was at work; 

 for his mills, driven by water power or by wind, 

 were sawing the timber of this country more than 

 a hundred years before there were sawmills in 

 England. 



INTERIOR OF A SAWMILL WITH CIRCULAR SAW 



