Lumber manufactured on this river may be considered as both English and American products; still, by common concurrence, and not strictly in accordance with revenue regulations, it is shipped indiscriminately. The manufacture of the English side of the river is received on board American vessels and shipped to the States, and the lumber manufactured on the American side shipped on board English vessels and taken to the English markets duty free. For the most part, the firms who conduct the lumbering business on the St. Croix are of great respectability; several of them are very wealthy. The following table[12] of estimates has been gathered from the most reliable sources; and, although mathematical exactness is not pretended, still it is believed that the calculations here presented approach the truth sufficiently near to give the reader a very satisfactory view of the _extent_ of the lumbering operations on the boundary river: +------------------------------+------------------+-------------+ | |English.|American.| Average | |No. of Saw-mills | 42 | 33=75 | price | |No. of Lath Machines | 60. | per M. | |------------------------------|------------------|-------------| |Amount of Long Lumber | 65,000,000.| $ 7.50. | |Amount of Laths | 90,000,000.| 1.00. | |Amount of Shingles | 21,000,000.| 2.50. | |Amount of Pickets | 2,165,000.| 3.50. | |Amount of Clap-boards | 200,000.| 18.00. | |No. of Juniper Knees | 8,300.| 1.40 each.| |No. of Men employed, directly | | | | and indirectly | 1,200 to 1,500.| | |No. of Oxen and Horses, do | 1,000.| | +------------------------------+------------------+-------------+ [12] To the following gentlemen, viz., Messrs. Todd & Darling, J. M'Alister, Esq., of St. Stephen's, and to W. Pike, Esq., port surveyor; L. L. Lowell, Esq., and other gentlemen of Calais, I am under lasting obligations for the courteous and intelligent manner in which they responded to the various questions proposed in preparing the statistics for the above table. Leaving the St. Croix, and traveling westward about forty miles, we come to East Machias River, to the west of which, six miles distant, is another river called West Machias. The name Machias originated in some obstruction in the way of the Indian traveler, either in the river itself or upon its banks, whether natural or accidental I am not aware.