Sawmill on Allen's Pond circa 1906

Photo and comment from Rene Elliott

We seem to have few images from western Town of Morris, this is another xeroxed bill head, paired up with the only known image from Allen's sawmill at the outlet of Allen's Pond, upper Dimmock Hollow.

Rennie M Elliott Five 12 inch beams 17 feet long.
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Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas so 51 board feet in a 3 inch plank 17 ft long by 1 ft wide
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Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas 5 planks would be 255 board feet
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Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas 42.85/255 = $.168 or 16.8 cents per board foot --
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Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas here's a site that's lists 12/4 Red oak at $6.85 per board ft if you buy more than 200 ft -- for 255 board feet that would come to $1746.75 https://hardwoodstore.com/lumber-prices

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Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas I don't know if they could come up with 3 inch planks 1 ft x 17 ft -- this is a North Carolina company -- shipping would add quite a bit to the price.
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Rennie M Elliott
Rennie M Elliott I think they (B.D. Phillips, Supt. rejected all bids and did it himself, using large boulders, saved money) rebuilt the stone arch bridge at the Morris Manor in 1904. The bridges in 1915 were taken out, or needed repairs after the flooding in July and August, and were listed in the Chronicle as well as town minutes. The now bypassed elbow on the South New Berlin hill, below the Gilbertsville county road intersection, used to have a concrete bridge or sluice with Ed Peet's name on it and a 1920's date, (this is c. 35 years ago when I rode my bike that way I stopped and looked at it) I don't know if that is where the gold painted 1926 metal plate on the wall in the town barn office came from or not?