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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
I thought that it might be well to state a few facts as to its size and cost, and other particulars.
The mill was to be twenty feet wide and twenty-five feet long, two and a half stories high—the first story thirteen feet high, the second eight feet in the clear, and from the top of the upper floor to the top of the plate four feet; the first story to be built separate from the upper, and of timber twelve inches square, braced in the strongest manner; each story to be of four bents; the whole building to be boarded with inch boards over which the sides and ends to be clapboarded with whitewood or black-walnut, and the roof to be shingled with oak shingles. The contract also included provision for doors, windows, stairs, double floors, etc., for four and a half foot mill-stones, or in case the rock intended for them should get spoiled in the making, then the stones might be made of four foot diameter. The contract also provided for the gearing of the wheels, for| elevators, and the taking of water from the west flume, etc.
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