St Nicholas [serial] . A MINNEAPOLIS SAWMILL. ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD. A system of rollers carries the sawed lumber sorted. The rollers are revolving cylinders ofand the slabs from the saws to the distant end steel raised just enough from the tables inof the mill where the boards are trimmed and which they are set to keep the lumber in mo-tion. Standing at theend of the roller-car-riage, a blue-blousedworkman with hissharp picaroon directsthe board in any di-rection he wishes, therough slabs being sentalong one set of sub-ordinate rollers to beshaved up into shinglesor ripped into kind
St Nicholas [serial] . A MINNEAPOLIS SAWMILL. ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD. A system of rollers carries the sawed lumber sorted. The rollers are revolving cylinders ofand the slabs from the saws to the distant end steel raised just enough from the tables inof the mill where the boards are trimmed and which they are set to keep the lumber in mo-tion. Standing at theend of the roller-car-riage, a blue-blousedworkman with hissharp picaroon directsthe board in any di-rection he wishes, therough slabs being sentalong one set of sub-ordinate rollers to beshaved up into shinglesor ripped into kindlingfor city consumption,while the boards passup a broad, inclinedtable where whizzinglittle saws trim themand saw them into therequisite lengths. In ahigh cage near the topof the room a work-man operates a seriesof levers like those inuse in a railway switch-. LUMBER PILING, i897.] THE STORY OF A PINE BOARD. 31 yard, directing the pieces of lumber as theypass up the incline. The lumber then tumblesdown the other side of the incline, and is readyfor piling. So great is the demand upon these saws bythis fierce tearing through the hearts of the greatlogs, that every few hours fresh saws take theirplaces, and the dulled ones are sent to thefiling-room. The filing is done by automatic,rapidly revolving emery-wheels, adjusted onhigh frames so that the saw moves along with-out direction from any one, the emery-wheelgrinding down between the teeth as the sawpasses along. Some of the larger mills have a capacity oftwo hundred and twenty-five thousand feet perday. An ordinary mill will cut about one hun-dred and seventy-five thousand feet. The saw-ing begins in the early spring as soon as thelogs come down from the drive, and continues until late autumn, or even into the early winterif the season be an open one. At last our pine board is piled up wit
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