Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Colonization Society: Presented at the Annual Meeting, May 28, 1851

The emigrants from Savannah took with them a steam saw-mill, with all the necessary appurtenances, including, it is hoped, the skill and energy necessary to manage it. This enterprise, if successful, will be of vast importance. It is not known that there is, or ever was, a saw-mill in Operation, any where between the Straits of Gibraltar and the Cape of Good Hope. All the civilized settlements on the whole western coast have always been dependent, for their supply of sawed lumber, on the pit-saw and importation. Its price, therefore, is enormously high. The successful introduction of this new form of industry will not only reduce the expense of building, but open a new and valuable source of wealth. Another saw-mill, we understand, in the hands of another company, is soon to follow.

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