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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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furnished by an overshot water wheel. In time it followed naturally that anadditional saw was inserted in the gate, and so on until the modern gang wasevolved. The first gang mill was built on the Hudson River at Fort Edward ; just when,the records do not show. It is claimed that the next one was erected in 1848 byHinckley & Ballou, on the West Canada Creek, in the town of Russia, HerkimerCounty. But prior to this year there were gangs running in the mills at GlensFalls, Sandy Hill, and Painted Post. In 1848 Henry S. Shedd and Marshall Shedd, Jr., erected a gang mill in LewisCounty at the lower falls of the Moose River, about one mile from its junction withthe Black River. The gang in this mill contained thirty-two saws. The first gang mill on the Raquette River was built at Norwood, in 1851, byMorgan, Rosekrans & Adsit. For many years after their introduction gang sawmills were operated by waterpower exclusively. Their owners, having secured the best mill sites on our rivers,
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a! fe e-1 Pw DH du d o o Piwp.o FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 269 did not need to run their mills by steam. Water power was cheaper; and manyof the largest gang mills in New York use it to-day. The large mills have not changed materially in the last forty years. In i860there were several in this State that ran five or six gates; say, three gangs, aslabbing gang, and two English mills.* Some used a Yankee gang instead of aslabber; and in the large mills, where two or more stock gangs were in use, one ofthem would contain about thirty-six saws, set for inch boards, while another wouldbe hung with a smaller number, set for plank. Such a mill — six gates — would cutabout fifteen million feet per year, running night and day, with an occasional shutdown for low water. Steam mills as a class used a large circular saw, although there are now millsin New York, as elsewhere, which run both circulars and gangs, and of late yearsband saws, also. It is difficult to find any records showing

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