THE SHORTLAND SAW MILL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1873, 4 January 1875, Page 2

THE SHORTLAND SAW MILL.

The Shortland Saw Mill Company have not benefitted much, "by the late intermittent fain. They have not been enabled to get down more than sixty or seventy logs—a number of others lying on the Banks up the stream, there being insufficient water to carry them down to the booms. It is known to those of experience that rain such as has prevailed lately is not of the kind to cause a good strong fresh; it is too undecided. The creek previously had been very low, owing to the continuance of dry weather, and when the rain did come it was too fitful and not of sufficient volume to cause a rise on the banks—all that fell was greedily absorbed. It is much to be regretted that the Saw Mill Company are put to the inconvenience and serious loss of time through the difficulty in the. way of transferring the timber from the bush to the Mill, which is capable of getting through an immense amount of work. From the time the Mill was first in readiness for work the supply of timber at the booms has not been adequate j and this is owing not to a want of. timber—which is to be obtained in great abundance—ljut to the ! difficulty experienced in conveying it down the creek.