CHAPTER V. 



LUMBERING ON THE WATERS OF GREEN BAY. 



The business of making lumber, on the waters which discharge into Green 

 Bay, is now very extensive, and is every year becoming more so. By inquiry and 

 observation as to the number of saws now plying (October, 1849) on these streams, 

 I put them at forty-six, and find that twelve additional ones will be in operation 

 this fall or winter ; making in all fifty-eight. 



These are distributed as follows : 



Saws. Building. 



On the waters of Wolf River, . . . . .8 



" " Fox River (below Lake Winnebago), 7 6 



Other streams discharging into the Bay, including the Menomonie, 26 4 



About Lake Winnebago (three of which are steam mills), 5 2 



46 12 



There are several mills, that do a limited business, not included in the above 

 statement, because no good estimate can be made of the quantity of lumber cut by 

 them. Those large merchant mills on the Oconto, Pensaukie, Peshtega, and Meno- 

 monie Rivers, do not run in the winter, as a general rule ; and during the summer 

 season are kept in motion night and day. 



Each saw turns out from four to five thousand feet in twenty-four hours ; but 

 some of those included above, are not capable of cutting four thousand feet per day, 

 and do not run incessantly. To arrive at the amount of lumber made, I think an 

 average of four thousand feet to each saw, for one half the year, or one hundred and 

 eighty-two days, would not be too high. 



Some very good mills exceed five thousand feet, but others, and greater numbers, 

 fall short of four thousand. 



At four thousand feet a day, for one hundred and eighty-two days, we should 

 have 33,488,000 feet of lumber as the product of the year 1849, worth, at $6 per 

 M., $200,928. 



