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Definition of o Sowmill

There are undoubteillg numerous definitions of a sawmill bd one of the most eniogable of such is this one uritten bg some annonAnxous author and reprinted bg the Mgron C. Haines Wholesale Lumber Compang of Roseburg, Oregon,

A saamill is a pooilE anangeil colleciion of in^ailequate and, obsolete machinerg used to conoert Ings irrto saudust and. slabs. It is constantlg submerged in a series of cataclgsmic d,isasters of fluctuating intensitg, some of uhich haae disturbed seismographs as far east asWoonsocket. Owned bg one or more optimistic id,iots and operated under a thin gnise of respectabilitE known as "Lumber Com.panE," it prooides for a Godawful mnnber of families, all local, state and, federal gooemmentq seoeral machine shops and. a bookkeeper. Its onlg income is derioed from the sale of a bi-prod.uct of sorne odd,-shaped. pieces of roood knoun as lumber rohich is sold to people of questionable intellect-rnortIrJ in the miildle uestem part of the United States.

The gross income of ang sawmill is d.iaided approrimatelg as follou:s: Sirtg percent for logs or rau material. Thirtg percent for lnbor. Ten percent for maintenance. Point zero zero three percent for management. One can easilg see that this all adds up to some of the most beautiful cases of stomach ulcers in the historg of medical science. lt has been estimated bg good authoritg that if all the sausmills in Douglas Countg alone roere laid end to end it uould, be prettg honible and. there still uouldit be cars for shipment.

There are four basic tgpes of sawmills and I name them in the order of their m,ost flagrant stupidity.

7. Neu mills under construction----+tothing good can be said for this group.

2. Those usho made enough credits during the summer run to cold.-deck enough logs to run all ointer in order to ytag for them.

3. Those usho ran all summer and, expec't to run in the u;inter on logs hauled ooer a usirter road rohich theg aill neoer pag for.

4. Those uho sag to hell uith it and, take up truck farming.

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