The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-08-11
DAILY INYELLIGENeER.
Thursday, Aug. III, 1881.


A writer in TIE Timber Trades Jour.
nal says that the exact date of the first
practical employment Of the saw mill
is not known. The earlier mills we're
driven by water wheels and wind
mills, steam as o motive power being
then unknown. The Greek and Ro-
man writers, although in their works
referring to machines for saving stous
and marble, make no mention of any
machine 10, saving wood, from which
IL may be inferred that such machines
did not exist in their time. The first
record We have OF the saw mill in Eu-
rope il in refersnce 10 . min erected In
Germany, on the river Roer, In the
fourth century. Beseb@s p bio = His
tory Of Inventions ays sbst saw mills
were first introduced in Europe in the
seventeenth sshfisY. but u issathori-
tatively given that such mills were to
be found workisg 10 Bavaria In 1887.
Wheo znxKc( kortuGal
sen. settle d 5ke 1apnd d Hadeir1s
in 1920. ~ osdefea NV uiik to 81
erected there for the conversion into
deals Of the varioes hjnds ef sxcslient
timber with ~hich that Island abound
cd. In 1927 % sity9of BrsSlau, in
Prussia. pessspsedr - saw mill, which
producsd j5y ssst 81. shfse esrAs.
In i4seitAs sssgkkasss Of zsiws, o
town in Prussisn Saxony, caused saw
mill TO be erected 10 o forest in the
neighborhood Of their town. Norway,
which 10 covered with forests. bad the
first saw mill sbopt the yess.l52O. The
saving b stihbef 81 machines was
then looked upon % . new art. and be.
cause the sxpoEndK Gnssd timber
was thsrebyissfeassa. ideal tiths was
imposed by Christian Ill, in 15is.
In 1862 there sss . ~ pillsat Joach
imsthsl. in Prussia, which, Sc we are
told. belonged to Jscob i6snsen. ,nsthe.
maticisn. In 1866 the bishop Of Ely.
ambassador from Mar. Queen of Eog-
land. to the court Of Roms. having seen
. saw milsp ID We ncighboroood OF Ly-
ons. thought 1t worthy Of his attention,
and gave instructions 70 the writer Of
his travels to make special and particu.
lar mention OF 1t in bis report to his
royal mistress. InEtles Sixteenth CEN
tury there we're in use mills with sew
eral saws Whereby legs Of timber could
be sawed into deals and planks.
The first saw mill an Holland was
erected at Saardam or Zaandmn in 1896,
and the credit Of the invention Is as
cribed by the Dutch TO Cornelius Cor
nelissen, yTAp vritsr has sesn great
many ascisntsaw nilE working 10 this
town. which is favorably situated both
for watsr ADJ lwihd power. There are
on the banks Of the river Zsan about
400 wial }pille. used fpr several pur-
poses, bus Chiefly ioss sawiag. The
s az. -, !, I s4 % s Sweden ~ crested
In England sew mills had = ilrst the
same fate that printing had % Turkey.
the ribbon loon 10 the dsminions Of
the church, and the crane Il Strasburg
cathsdrelA vbSa attempts were made
b introducs them they were violsnsly
oppossd, becapse y has susf6d that The
sswysrs weqld be, deprivsd Of their
meaas Of subsistsnos. For this ses,
san II was fosqa asessazy 10 sbendes
. saw mill which wss pas up By y
Datchman in Losdos is l6oss aud il
the yssss17oe. wAsn . person named
Houghton sndeavored to introduce q
saw mill, y Vas feared that il would be
impracticsbls 10 do 80. for fear Of excit.
ing the Fage q The pAvysfs.. What
was drca4 az III econrrse n 1907,
vhsn. BY The desife and with The as
sistanoe Of the Council Of the Society
OF Arts. capitalist erected saw mill
driven BY . wind mill at Limshouse.
under the direction Of James Stanfeld,
who had learned 10 Gssmany and Hol-
laad the art Of co6ssrucsing and work :
ing these machines. tho mob assembled
and pulled down The mlll., The less,
however, Vas INSIDE good by the nation,
and some Of the riotsrs we're rsnished
Another mill was subsequently erected
which Nss sllowed to work withcu,
molsstation, and which soon gave riss
to the construction Of othsrs, q soon az
1t IVES perceived how advantageous in
many wsys machine saving was over
hand saving. II may be mentioned
that about this time the saw mill founi
its way into Scotland, Tor va hear q
ons working at Leish.
ssumm.mu
II Is estimated that the saskatehswar
district, in British America, embraces.
ooo nm flxn 49,. - LA 4. f..s