Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-17
Maine Ma nufacturing News.

Inc lime cask makers IN the RocRland anC
Camden circuit are using up the young hoop
pole growth in all directions. The whole
country to the Kennebec is annually cut over
and they are now seeking a supply else
where They have purchased large guam
tity in Belfast the past winter, some of which
have been hauled hitler from towns some fif
teen or twenty miles north. The price ha:
been from IS to so cents per hundred.
The contract for building and furnishing the
cheese factory at Fairbanks Mills, North Far.
mington, has been made with j. b. Holley
for the sum Of Sl,425 Mr.. Holley is an en-
ergetic, go-ahead young man, and the friends
of the enterprise may expect to see a first
class factory built and fully equipped at an
early day.
Nathaniel kimball has leased for five years
that part of Factory Island in Biddeford, near
the wharves of the Water Power Co., for a
brick yard. All the bricks which he can
make this season, estimated at 10000, have
been engaged to the Laconia Co., for their
new mill.
Messrs. w. w. Rideous & Co., of Fair ield
Village, are preparing to put up an addition
to their furniture factory. called for by their
growing business. 1t is to be two story
building, 30x75 feet, and will stand on the cas-:
side of the old building, with which it will
connect by 4 bridge spanning the railroad
track.
The Camden Anchor Factory has been max
ing anchors for the past winter at the rate OF
seven hundred tons year. A large number
of anchors were shipped to the lakes.
Fifty men were engaged on Saturday to
work in the Cape Ann Granite Company
quarry. Mr.. John N. Stimson of Alfred, one
of the rroprietors of this quarry, has a large
contract fnr rapairipO cop,a # Tho Straato ~
the burnt district in Boston.
d. Dudley and Co., have put into their
shoe factory at Newport a new Baxter up
right engine, and are about to enlarge their
business, having received large orders from
Boston parties and one order of six thousand
pairs from one firm.
The Legislature last winter chartered a
stock company, with a capital of 100000, to
manufacture Evans repeating rifles in this
State. DIR. Evans, the inventor of the rifle,
formerly of Thomaston, writes that the COM
pany are thinking of establishing their works
in Portland. This rifle can be fired thirty
eight times in nineteen seconds, from the
magazine, and twenty -four times minute re-
tanning the magazne-or, in other words, the
magazine, which has capacity of thirty eight
charges, once filled, can be kept so for use in
a great emergency, while at the same time
charges can be placed in singly and fired at
the rate of twenty-four per minute. AS a
single breech loader it can be discharged from
twenty five to thirty times a minute.
In Vermont the cost of making cheese at
the factories is usually from l-2 to cents
pound; and factory cheese sells in the mar
ket for enough more than that made in private
diaries to pay the cost of manufacture. Last
year, factory cheese sold for Is l2 to 10 cents
pound, while that of private diaries sold for
10 l-2 to Is IL cents. The reason why fac
tory cheese sells thus for higher price than
other cheese IS not that private dairyman
cannot make as good cheese as is made in the
| factories, if he will use equal skill, care and
| painstaking, but the process of making the
cheese at home is subject toymany Interrupt
tions from which in the factory it is free, fol
employed and paid to make the cheese as il
| should be made from day to day, and be re-
sponsible for it,
| The citizens of West Paris are very much
interested in the project Of erecting steam
mill. The mill is to be used by Messrs
Brown and Barrows, for the purpose Of man.
ufacturing chairs. They also propose to run
some small machinery, such as clothes-pin
or spool saws At u meeting held the 9Th
| inst, an organization was effected and the
| following officers were elected: 2. G. Pickett
President; Mark Chandler, Secretary; j.
BicknelI, Jr., Treasurer. A committee was
also raised to dispose of the remaining stock
select the location for a building, and to take
other preliminary action. p. c. Pickett
Enoch Whittemore, Jr., and s. b. Locke
compose the committee. $4,000 worth OF
stock has been sold, and it is thought there
will be no difficulty in disposing of the re-
naming $1,000.