How to Build and Operate a Sawmill: with Three Loose Charts of Sawmill Lay-outs

This classic reference is organized as follows:

I. Timber Supply
A Most Serious Mistake

II. Logging
The Proper Kind of Equipment
The Pull-Boating System
Steam Skidding the Cheapest
Work to Be Considered
A Few General Observations on Logging

III. Building the Mill
Competent Millwright Necessary
Economical Handling of Lumber Should Be Aim
Utilisation of Sawdust.

IV. Sawing for Grade
Figuring Averages as a Basis for Costs
Cost of Cutting Gum Lumber
Which End of the Log First?

V. Yard and Piling Yard
Piling
Prevention of Stain
An Automatic Lumber Stacker

VI. Selling the Output
The Burden Rests Upon the Millman