The light metallic top wheel with its shaft, runs in boxes mounted on plungers, and from them stems lead down to the straining levers, and all were made as light as possible. Characteristically about all band mills now employ this system, and whether they have a single column or a double column, the arrangement is substantially the same. We often read of big day’s work performed by some make of band mill, but it is proper to say that the day’s work performed in the saw mill of the North Wisconsin Lumber Co. at Hayward, Wis., has never been equaled. This was done by two of Prescott’s No. 3 mills, being the second one illustrated, as follows: NORTH WISCONSIN LUMBER COMPANY Hayward, Wis., Aug. 23, 1893. D. CLINT PRESCOTT. Dear Sir:—The North Wisconsin Lumber Company made the following cut: August 22, 1893, with two Prescott Band Mills only, 609 selected logs, scaled full. Average 1.97 to 1,000 feet, 309,400 feet. Lumber scale, 1 inch, 45,236 1¼ and 2 inch, 294,077 ------- 339,313 feet The cut of August 22nd shows what can be done with large logs, and the cutting was as perfectly done as any day’s cut we ever made. W. H. Elliott, Superintendent of Valley Lumber Co., Eau Claire, and A. L. Ulrich, of Rice Lake Lumber Co., will vouch for the cut of August 22nd, as well as Captain Rogers, our Superintendent, and myself. Yours truly, R. L. McCORMICK, Secretary N. W. L. Co. It is of interest to note the gain of about 30,000 feet by sawing the logs with a Band Mill instead of a Circular Mill. This record, widely published at the time, coupled with the fact that nearly three hundred Prescott mills were then in successful service, is evidence enough to show that all other Band Mills as herein shown had become obsolete and were back numbers, and were abandoned for the later constructions all are now familiar with. But before any of them, or any of the others that have appeared on the market since then, can boast of big cuts or a superior grade of mills, it is up to them to show a better record than the one above given; a record that will be vouched for by Mr. McCormick who is still alive. [Illustration: R. L. McCormick in 1893] There are also two of this same type of Band Mills now running in the saw mill of the Fosburgh Lumber Co. at Norfolk, Va., and notwithstanding they are nearly twenty years old, there are no Bands on the Atlantic seaboard anywhere that equal them today, either in the quality or extent of daily output.