But, notwithstanding the severity of this visitation, few traces are left to denote it, at least to impress the stranger's mind. Bridges have been re-erected, damages repaired, and the business community have risen from under it with the elasticity of a sapling oak after the tempest has overpast. Between fifty and sixty saws were swept away, which have not yet (1848) been replaced. The following table, showing the condition of the lumber manufacture and trade on the Penobscot, has been obtained from the most reliable sources of information, and is presented for the inspection of those interested in such matters. Number of saw-mills on the Penobscot and tributaries, 240. Number of clap-board machines, 20. Number of lath machines, 200. Amount of long lumber sawed annually,[17] 200,000,000 feet, at $10.00 per _M._ Amount of laths sawed annually, 400,000,000 pieces, at $1.00 per _M._ Amount of clap-boards sawed annually, 5,500,000 pieces, at $18.00 per _M._ Amount of shingles[18] sawed and split annually, 110,000,000 pieces, at $2.50 per _M._ Amount of pickets[19] sawed annually, 10,000,000 pieces, at $6.50 per _M._ The number of men, oxen, and horses employed directly and indirectly on this river alone, would not vary, probably, much from twenty thousand.[20] [17] The amount varies from year to year, sometimes exceeding, and then again falling short of the amount above stated. [18] Sawed on the river and from the country. [19] There are various other kinds of short lumber, such as staves, sash and window-blind stuff, not enumerated. [20] The author, in preparing the above statement, has availed himself of the most reliable sources of information, and would particularly mention the following gentlemen, to whose intelligence and kindness he is particularly obligated Mr. S. Harris, of the surveyor general's office; Rufus Dwinel, Esq., and Mr. Taylor, of Bangor; also A. W. Babcock, Esq., and several other gentlemen of Orono. The reader may inquire with some curiosity, "Where does all this lumber find a market?" We may remind such that Maine has furnished, in times past, the principal part of the lumber consumed in the United States and the West India Islands, though other states in the Union possess immense tracts of fine timber land, which, as the lumbering interests of Maine diminish, will be cut and brought into market. Indeed, such movements have already become quite common in the western part of the State of New York, and also in Pennsylvania and Georgia, as well as in other portions of the country where there are large tracts of timber land, much of which has already been bought up by Eastern lumbermen.