The Portland daily press., 1868-05-01
"s $500 per asnans, s,, Advance.


| MANOFACfohNe BUSINESS IN IEwrsroU
At the present time cotton manufacturing IA
somewhat under the weather which 81.
from the fact that the raw material !. Zoo
| high for the price at which the manufac,rroa
article is now selling. 1t is not believed that
| this high price of raw cotton will hold great
| while, and hence it is believed that a cautious
course is the most judicious one at this time
SO there is very little accumulation of goods
or buying of cotton now to manufacture sixty
or ninety days hence. 1t is not believed, how
ever, that there are too many spindles in the
country-that the cotton manufacturing has
been overdone; hence livelier times are antici-
pated ere long. / do not find any manufac-
turer who is inclined to take the same gloomy
view of the cotton business as that set forth
by Senator Sprague some months ago.
Whlle there is something being done in the
way oil small improvements, by the different
companies, there is no fattering indication
that new mill will be put up this season.
Mr. A. d. Lockwood, who has general SUPER
vision of all the cotton companies here, in
forms me that he has just had completed all
the drawings for the extension OF the Cont-
mental Mill. That mill now has q 900 spiu-
dies in operation; when completed it's capacity
will be 10000. Should the cotton business
take favorable turn, the company will be
prepared to commence building at once.
LEWISTON WATER POWER.
The amount of water-power within the lin
its of Lewiston is much greater than has hith-
erto generally been supposed. The forthcoming
report of the Superintendent Clate Secretary
of the photographic Survey, Walter Wells,
Esq, shows that on the three privileges on the
Androscoggin, namely, "Deer Rips, Lewis
ton Falls" and the "Lower Water Power"
oUer 10000 hOrse-potUers can noU be command
ed at the lol0est stages of the riuer. Two-thirds
is the power is at the point. The report fur
ther shows that the improvement of the Um-
bagog lakes for storage basins would add too
hundred per cent. to the lo,o-run pOa0er Of the
riUer. Over 10000 horse-powers can therefore
be had in this town alone when required
This power, reckoning the usual GO spindles to
each horsepower, will operate 100000 spin
dies, about eight times our present number,
eand more than four times the number opera
ted at Lowell.
This is only one item out of a great array
of facts contained in the report OF the Super
intendent, making known the immensity Of
our State water-power.
There is no one better qualified than Mr..
Wells to carry the photographic enterprise
through to completion, and his appointment
to the sole charge of the Survey in place Of
the late Commission was doubtless made az q
tribute to his great zeal, industry and emf
nent fitness for the work. Mr.. A. d. Lock-
wood, who was a member of the Commission,
tells me he would not know where to look for
another so perfectly qualified for the impor-
tant duties of the Survey
PERSONAL.
On Saturday last Mr. D. NJ. Aver, who has
been the successful Agent of the Bates Mills
tor fourteen years, retired from that position.
He purposes making his future home In the
West; and his purpose must be strong, for
understand he has refused the agency OF q
Massachusetts, Manufacturing Company at
salary of $4,000. His place is taken by Cyrus
:. Barker,a native of Cumberland county, I
think. For ten or fifteen years he was con-
nected with the York Mills, in Saco; after
wards he was with the Everett Mills, in Law.
renee, for five or six years. He comes here
from Philadelphia where he has had full charge
for two years, of 700 looms, manufacturing
fancy goods. Similar goods are produced by
the Bates. Mr.. E. S. Davis, Superintendent
of the Hill Mills, under the agency of Mr.. J.
G. Coburn, goes to Danielson, Conn, where he
will take charge of the Quinebaug Company.
POLITICAL.
When I have leisure will endeavor to tel
you how many candidates for Congress We
have in this District. BARLOW.