The Portland daily press., 1874-10-14
Business Notes.

AS far as We have been able to learn every
carriage mandatory in the city is running full
| force on full time. This looks well when it is
remembered that in other places they are work.
| ing half force.
Carpenters and builders are unusually busy
just now. A gentleman on Commercial street
called on several of the leading firms yesterday
to get a job done, and could find no one who
would promise to attend to it for two months to
come. The work now in hand will employ this
class of artizans well into the winter.
The plumbing business is good owing to the
large number of buildings going up this fall.
Although in other parts of the state the shoe
factories are all closing, three Of the largest in
this city are running full force, with plenty of
orders. and do not expect to shut down or re-
duce their force.
There is large business doing in coal at
present, people being engaged in laying in their
winters stock of fuel.
A large quantity of potatoes have been ship
ped from here to Cuba of late.
William II. Kimball of Burnham, has just
completed burning his kiln of BRICKS contain
ing fifty thousand. 1t was eleven days burn
ing. His father has made bricks on the same
farm for thirty years.
The reputation of the productions of the
Sturgis mill in Wiscasset is something of which
the proprietors, Messrs Haynes, Foster & Co.,
may well be proud. The cargo of the ship
Storm King has just been sold in England, and
the consignee, Messrs. A. f. & D. Mackay, the
we'll known timber brokers of Liverpool, write
that the deals are SO bright and well made that
the buyers cannot resist them. In speaking of
previous cargo, they say, 'These are the hand
soonest deals we ever saw"
Mr.. James E. Trask has purchased the shin
gle min at Vienna village, and is putting it in
good running order to do custom saving and
manufacture spade handles. Mr.. G. w. Willis
is fitting up the old saw mill dam, at the same
place, and intends to put in circular saw mill.
Bangs, Weston & Co., of Bath. manufactur-
ers of doors, sashes and blinds, employ some
forty men, and are doing splendid business.
The Camden Grist Mill Company dispose
yearly of 10000 bushels nf corn. Another mill
on the Meganticook, owned by Rodolphus
Barnes, grinds about 10000 bushels of corn.
The largest number of premiums on farm
implements at the late state fair borne off by
any single exhibitor, were awarded to Fred At
wood, Esq.,, of Winterport. This comes simply
from the fact that Mr.. Atwood was the largest
exhibitor in this class, and alone furnished
nealy one-half the articles on exhibition. His
collection added greatly to the interest in this
department, and he justly deserved the thirty
nine first premiums which he was awarded.
The Boston Journal Of Commerce says: The
Portland Stone Ware Com oany, who are now
exhibiting at the fair, are manufacturers of a
very superior quality of fire brick. for which
they are receiving very extensive orders. These
are made to any shape desired, from any pat
tern, and are really equal to anything of the
same nature heretofore introduced. For roll
ing mills nothing has bet been manufactured
that at all compares with them, and for lining
blast furnaces they have stood the most severe
tests in competition with those of other MAX
kers, and come off victorious. They are now
very extensively used for hot blast furnances,
and have been placed side by side with the best
quality of Scotch brick, and have stood the trial
to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. We
heartily recommend the friedrich of the Port
land Stoneware Company, as having no superb
or in the market They can be seen at the pres
ent Exposition, and will repay an examination.
A medal has been awarded the company for the
superiority of their manufactures. The facto-
nv is at Portland, Me.