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== Importance of sawmills ==
Sawmilling was an important industry in North Eastern Victoria right through the period of the KellyGang
From the begining [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] required large quantities of timber for the mines and the buildings in the town. The other mines and towns in the area. In the 1870s there was a large trade cutting sleepers for the new [[Railways|railway]] lines.
Sawmilling was hard work. Logs had to be cut in the bush by hand with a cross cut saw and snigged out to the sawmill by teams of horses or bullocks.
In the early years the longs were saw in pit saws but later the sawmills increasingly used steam engines to drive the saws to cut up the longs into planks.
The construction of the railway lines took lots of timber. Large timbers were needed for bridges and the track was laid on thousands of sleepers that were cut from local hardwood
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== The KellyGang involvement with sawmills ==
After [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] was released from goal in early [[1874-1877 Events|1874]] he got a number of jobs in logging camps and sawmills and stayed out of the way of the police for about 3 years.
Ned worked for J [[Saunders|Saunders]] and R [[Rule|Rule]] and for [[Heach|Heach]] and [[Dockendorf|Dockendorf]]. One of the sawmills was on Red Camp station near [[Glenmore Run|Glenmore]] run
[[Acock|Acocks]] sawmill was on [[Seven Mile Creek|Seven Mile Creek]]. ([[Royal Commission report day 25 page 15|RC9870]])
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