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Saw MILLs.-By en article IN lac Norm Aiiic,
~;oon Rev;ev. we learn that the first saw MILL CT
,.,I;oh ,bere is any record, was erected at Ma
Ss;rs in the wear 1920 the second was at B'e-
alan seven years later; but their multiplication
in Europe proceeded very slowly. One wes
erected in London in 1853, but II was demolished
aoon afterward, that it might not be the means OF
deriving the poor of employment. About l130
. company was incorporated in England, which
made large purchase OF pine timber, erected
mills. and introduced various Improvements IN
the manufacture and transportation of lumber.
But the company made themselves odious by the
innovation, and the popular feeling against ma.
chine saws continued very strong. saw mitl
set up at Lmehouse, about the year l76S, was
destroyed by mob.


The first built in America wes in what IS nov
the town of York, Maine, in 1923, under the dl-
rection of Sir Fernando Gorgcs, and IN lb3O,
mills were put up ON the Pscatsqua.


The first mill in Massachusetts was built on
the Neponsett, at Dorchester, III 1883, and The
second in 1856, on the Herring Brook, Scitua;e
There was one on the Saco soon as 1853, and
one on Mill River, Taunton, six years afterward
In 1851 another was put up in Plymouth colony
and in 1856 four were in operation at Cape Por
poise, Me- At Machias there was one in 1863
within year after the first grant of land arc
mill sites East of the Penobsco,


In the slavoholding States saving IS stll *
tensively done by hand, and that in the neigh
borhood Of sufficient water power.


Vermont Chronicle.