Lumber scale,1 inch, 45,236
1¼ and 2 inch,294,077
339,313 feet

It is of interest to note the gain of about 30,000 feet by sawing the logs with a Band Mill instead of a Circular Mill.

This record, widely published at the time, coupled with the fact that nearly three hundred Prescott mills were then in successful service, is evidence enough to show that all other Band Mills as herein shown had become obsolete and were back numbers, and were abandoned for the later constructions all are now familiar with.

But before any of them, or any of the others that have appeared on the market since then, can boast of big cuts or a superior grade of mills, it is up to them to show a better record than the one above given; a record that will be vouched for by Mr. McCormick who is still alive.

R. L. McCormick in 1893

There are also two of this same type of Band Mills now running in the saw mill of the Fosburgh Lumber Co. at Norfolk, Va., and notwithstanding they are nearly twenty years old, there are no Bands on the Atlantic seaboard anywhere that equal them today, either in the quality or extent of daily output.

The short, compact mill with the base above the overlays of the saw floor, originated with Prescott. Wood rims with rubber faces on the wheels were speedily abandoned by him, and wheels all of metal were brought into use, so that a filer in rolling tension into the saw had a clean wheel free from bunches of pitch and sawdust which stuck to the rubber faces and produced unbalanced wheels; but then everybody supposed that rubber faces were a necessity. Mr. Prescott demonstrated that the mill was vastly better without them.

The late improvements made in frame constructions merely add stability without increasing the quality or extent of the output, this being entirely dependent upon a light weight of the top wheel with its shaft and boxing in combination with a straining lever system made as frictionless and sensitive as possible; for without these good conditions no band mill will render duty of the highest grade.

Logically, then, the same principles and elements of construction have been embodied in all the splendid Band Saw Mills now built by The Prescott Company herein shown.