The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-10-13
Business Notes.

Woodman s. True yesterday sold cargo of
dry goods for South America. The goods were
sold to an eastern man, who takes several car
goes to the northern coast of South America
during the year, and brings back loads of fruit,
There is only about one-third the usual crop
of winter apples in this state this year. So say
COL Perley of Bridgton and Mr.. John Flint of
Baldwin, two of the largest fruit raisers in
Maine, nodheads are coming in abundantly,
and there is larger crop than ever before
known.
The dry goods trade in this city employs
about thirty runners, whose fields are in Maine
and portions of New Hamp shire, Vermont aud
New Brunswick.
Handsome fall apples are coming into the
the market by carloads from the West.
Grapes are unusually plentiful and cheap
Catawbas being S. case. Concords 81, and
Isabellas 1915. Each case contains eight
cen three pound boxes.
New publications are pouring into the book
stores, and booksellers are getting ready for
holiday and gift books. Large numbers are
already announced, and the stocks will be
larger and finer than last year. In juveniles
especially the outlay will be large.
Chestnuts are coming into the market in
large quantities. The Massachusetts, crop is said
to be very good, and prices are falling at the
rate of two dollars day on barrel. Yester-
day the price was $22
Clothiers and clothing dealers say that people
are buying as many and as good clothes as
last,year. Prices are we'll sustained, and there
is even slight advance in cassi meres and some
other paintings.
The -four market is very quiet considering
that it is the October month; purchasers are
slow and jobbers are waiting for lower prices,
which may or may not come to them.
The North Berwick Company are building a
new dyehouse, which is to be of brick, three
stories high, and about 70x40 feet. Recently
the Company have been deepening the river
above the dam to increase the volume of re.
serve water.
Smith & Maeder's saw mill at Waterville >
gives constant employment to over one hun
bred hands. The lumber cut by this mill is
from the company's tracts in different sections
of the state, none being bought of outside par
ties.
Abner Coburn and Philander Coburn have
given notice of foreclosure OH the Coburn
Land Company, for the lands sold to that COM
pany by the Coburns and the payment for
which they were secured by mortgage. The
conditions of the mortgage being broken, they
claim foreclosure. The lands are very valua-
BILE, and are situated in Somerset, Piscataquis
and franklin counties.
| Messrs. Brown & Barrows of West Paris are
doing an extensive business in chair manufac.
| ture. They have six thousand chairs of differ
ent patterns now ready to put together, and for
market Their cane seat work is to be done at
the State Reform School, near this city.
| Their dry house is Immediately over the engine
aud the material for two thousand chairs can
be dried at one time. Mr.. Sanborn of Nor
way, with crew of ten men, is busily engaged
at the steam mill manufacturing shovel hand.
les; they have thirty-fve thousand to finish
up, and which will take them from six to eight
| weeks.
| The Lewiston Journal does not understa nd
that the Androstoggn or Hill corporations
have yet received orders to curtail production
The curtailment of production in that city, al
all events; is not likely to be of any great ex
tent or duration. The demand for the miscel
laneous classes of cotton fabrics, Outside Of
plain cottons) is good, and sheetings are begin
ming to be taken more freely.
The fremont Shirt manufactury was es
tablished in Garland one year ago. and since it,
commencement the factory has been run to its
full capacity in producing goods for the Bostor
market.
About $4,000 worth of hops have been solo
in Bethel and vicinity, within the past two
| weeks Thirty fl va cants ner DOund has beer
the established price for A No. 1. Gilman P
Bean and g. & E. G. Rowe have been the pur
chasers. Eben Clough has about twenty thous
and bushels of potatoes in his starch factory
and there are many more waiting Transports
ton to market The price paid is from thirty
to fifty cents per bushel.