Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-12

j. w. & A. G. Parsons Of Norway, are
upper water privilege, at the head of the vii
lage. They have four burr mills, and grind
10000 bushels of corn, and 90 900 bushels of
wheat per annunl.
The petition of the Casco Manufacturing
Company of Portland to the city council of
that city, sets forth that the corporation in
tend to purchase building or buildings and
put in operation about $4,000 spindles, for
the manufacture of cotton goods, at cost of
over $50, 900. If the investment promises to
prove remunerative the enterprise will be ex-
tended to the $4,000, the sum fixed by the
charter of the company.
1t is stated that the negotiations which have
been going on between h. Is. Dunn & Sons
and the Ticonic Waterl Power and Manufac-
in contract by which the purchasers bind
themselves to eXpend within the next nine
months, five thousand dollars, and within the
next two years five hundred thousand dollars
in grading for, and erecting "one or more
cotton mills, and other necessary buildings,
boarding houses and appurteEances."
The furniture and fixtures of the cheese
factory at Newburg are being set up. The
building is so by SO feet, with work room
on the first floor, curing room on the second
and storeroom on the third. The factory
will begin its operations with the milk of one
hundred and fifty cows, which will probably
be increased during the summer, the capacity
of the factory being sufficient to use the milk
of four hundred.
The prospect is good otnew parties starting
up the wooden mill at Norway again, and that
Boston house are negotiating with view to
erect and run large paper mill at Steep
Falls.
The Portland Machine Works have recev-
ed a contract for building one of the new
wooden revenue steamers for ST. 900.
Six workmen are now actively engaged in
manufacturing cans for use the coming season
to be used in Jones corn factory at Farming
ton, and the enlargement of the factory will
be commenced in July.
The improvements on the waterpower at
North New Portland are the grist mill, be-
longing to the estate of J. b. Bartlett; saw
mill owned by Bartlett G. Plummer, and the
box sled and rake factory owned by c. ii.
Bartlett. The grst mill does good business
Of custom grinding, being patronized by the
farmers Of that section, and for a long
distance in the county up river. The saw
mill is fitted up with circular board saw, shin
gle saw, clapboard saw, lathe saw and planer.
The firm of Bartlett & Plummer own G000
| acres of heavily timbered lands above. all of
which timber can be tioated down the Gilman
Stream to their mill. The box factory of Mr..
c. II. Bartlett is one of the smartest of its
kind in the country. Here may be seen cords
and cords of box shook stuck up for drying,
all Of which will be worked up into medicine
packing boxes and salt boxes.
The East Madison Slate quarry now worked
by the Maine Slate Company, is sure to be put
into a stock company with a capital of $780,
600 for the purpose of more extensive opera
tions. The operations have been by T. II.
Dinsmore, Hobart and others. Forty sizes of
slate have been manufactured by the company
varying from by to l6 by "a. Slate now
is taken from twenty to thirty feet below the
surface and is unsurpassed in color and quail
ity.