St. Nicholas (serial) (1873) (14760613926)

Identifier: stnicholasserial251dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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THE GANG SAW, WHICH CUTS A LOG INTO MANY PLANKS AT ONE TIME. that our pine board, as we watch it pass throughthe mill, may receive no stain of blood upon itsfragrant surface. Three main kinds of saws are used in themills: the band, which is a belt of steel, aboutthirty feet long, passing around two broad and if he is not able to tell at a glance intojust what sizes of lumber the log should be cutin order to make it most profitable to the mill-owner, he will be an expensive man at anyprice. These head sawyers receive from sevento ten dollars per day for their work. 3Q THE STORY OF A PINE BOARD. (Nov. Itffil
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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-