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There are no sawmills, either stationary or portable, in Mil- 

 ford. There are no operators resident in the town, but C. A. 

 Fletcher of Mendon and D. W. Gaskill of Blackstone have done 

 some cutting in the past. For the most part the owners cut 

 their own wood, delivering it to the local cordwood dealers. 



Z. C. Field Lumber Company use about 4,000,000 feet of 

 lumber per year. Practically all of this lumber comes from 

 outside of the State, and consists of white pine, western yellow 

 pine, spruce, cypress, whitewood and hemlock. Most of their 

 white pine is obtained from Canada. 



S. A. Eastman Box Company use annually about 175 M board 

 feet of native white pine. 



Land Types. 



MiLLBURY. 



The condition of the woods of the southwest portion is very 

 good. The soil is excellent, and fires have not done much 

 damage. Chestnut and red maple are the principal trees. 

 There is a little scattering of white pine and a few small stands 

 of good merchantable pine. Of the comparatively small 



