The Portland daily press., 1874-11-06
Business Notes.

The Maine Central railroad shipped to Boston
last year 1863, 900 bushels of potatoes. 1t re-
ceived an average of nine cents bushel as its
share for getting the goods to market.
The pulp mill Of Clouiman & Plummer in
Gorham, has been purchased by j. W. Wake
field. ESQ.,, of Buth, and the same will be ex-
tensively improved and worked in the manu-
facture of box board. 81
The Sprague Manufacturing Co. have reduced
the wages ten per cent. A similar reduction
was made about year ago, SO that wages now
are twenty per cent. lower than year or two
ago.
Twenty-Five car loads of cattle and sheep
came into Bangor on the European & North
American railway Wednesday. slel
Gentlemen engaged in the lumber business
in Bangor estimate that the production there
this year will fall short 100000 feet of that
in 1873. rt-. 20
The shipments OF boots and shoes from Au-
burn and Lewiston during the past week have
been 1924 cases, to 1907 for the previous, and
1852 for the corresponding week of last year;
and the receipts of leather have been 81, 299
pounds, to 81, APO for the preceding and @, 055
for the corresponding week of last year.
The Portland Packing Company have just
completed the erection of building for clam
and lobster packing business at Biddeford
Pool The main building is TOKYO, and another
4Ox2O. Some eighty hands will be employed in
digging, canning and putting up CLAIMS. Work
commenced last week. The buildings are near
the wharf occupied by Mr. Goldthwaite, and
shipments can be easily made. The business
of this company is constantly increasing. and
new shops are being erected every now and
then at various points in the Eastern states
and provinces. e
1t is reported that the American Print Works
of Fall River, will stop the last three days in
each week for the present
None of the large manufacturing companies
of Lowell are working short time, and there is
a considerable movement of goods although at
a very small margin for profit.
The car shops of the Norwich s. Worcester
railroad are running on full time and with a
full force.
The New Haven Register thinks that the
prospect for winter work in that.city is good,
and speaks of the number of building permits
recently issued, as one of the encouraging
Signs.
BURIED TREAsURE.-The citizens of North
Paris are much exercised by the recent I'm
earthing of a pot of money containing about a
thousand dollars of gold and silver coin. The
facts are that about the 18th of September,
Alanson Briggs and son of Mechanic Falls,
came to North Paris at night and dug place
in the grain field of Nathaniel Young, near the
highway, without the knowledge of any one at
the time. Mr.. Young and.others, few days
after finding place of fresh dug earth COW
cred with raspberry bushes, apparently to hide
it, had the curiosity to dig into it-with what
success does not appear; but the denouement
is, that Mr.. Briggs returned and again opened
eral days after, on the first moonlight night,
and after an unsuccessful search, he declared
confidentially to persons whom he supposes
may have found the treasure (Which he offered
to divide) that he placed, or knew was placed,
more than thirty years ago, gold and silver
coin, to the amount of $1,000, in an iron pot,
and buried in 1.-THE ground on that spot Per-
sons who saw the hole dug between Mr.. BIS
visits, said the marks where a rusty pot was
taken from the earth were plainly seen. Mr..
Briggs visited North Paris, October 29th, in a
fruitless search, and was affected to tears at
his loss. Ee has stated to parties that he has
visited the spot for years-that he passed
when the grain was growing this. season, but
decided not to remove it until the grain was
cut. Residents of North Paris say that thirty
or forty years ago, from the store of Ebenezer
Drake, who recently died, there mysteriously
disappeared a trunk containing money and val
nable papers belonging to John Gardiner of
Patten. .A