+---------------------------+----------+------------+--------+ | | | Average | | | | | price | Total. | | | | per M. | | | | +------------+--------+ |No. of Saw-mills | 60. | | | |No. of Shingle Machines | 10. | | | |No. of Clap-board Machines | 9. | | | |No. of Lath Machines | 9. | | | |No. of Long Lumber |5,000,000.| $14.30. | 71,500.| |No. of Shingles |3,000,000.| 2.75. | 8,250.| |No. of Clap-boards | 450,000.| 22.50. | 12,375.| |No. of Laths |2,250,000.| 1.18. | 2,773.| | | | |------- | | | | |$94,898.| +---------------------------+----------+------------+--------+ There is also a small amount of lumber manufactured on the Presumpscot, a small river about fifty miles long, if we include Sebago Pond as a connecting link between Presumpscot Proper and the continuation of the inlet stream, which takes its rise about twenty miles east of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, running southwest, and finally emptying into Casco Bay, a few miles north of Portland. "There are said to be seventeen falls of water on this river within twenty miles of Portland, each affording a good site for mills, and a sufficient volume of water on each pitch to carry eight hundred looms, together with all other needed machinery for such purposes." "Sebago Lake is a thoroughfare and feeder of the Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and there are between the lake and the sea twenty-six locks of nearly ten feet each, making the fall equal to two hundred and fifty-five feet." The fountains of this river are so springy that "the water never freezes so as to prevent or impede operations," nor are they troubled with droughts; the current is ever-living. At Sacarappa, on the Presumpscot, there are six saws for long lumber, two shingle and two lath machines. At Great Falls there are four saws, also four more a few miles up the river, and four shingle and four lath machines. Above Sebago Pond there are also four more saw-mills, the produce of which finds a domestic market in the neighboring towns. The resources for lumber on this river are nearly exhausted, as must be evident from the settled condition of the country through which it runs its short career. Having no means by which to ascertain the various amounts of lumber manufactured on this river, I will venture upon a calculation, with a view to make results more tangible, keeping in view the scanty resources lumbermen must have in such a country for logs.