The Portland daily press., 1879-06-23
Signs OF Reyiving Business.

The Bangor Commercial says vessels are
still in demand at that port and freights are
rising.
The Katahdin Iron Works have started up
and there is greater demand for iron than
there has been for a long time
How hard the times must be when Bar
NUNS circus carries $4,000 out of Augusta.
Fifteen thousand dollars worth of stock of
the Dunton silver mine in Hampden was put
upon the market at Bangor one morning last
week and in less than two hours it was all sold
and there was call for more
The Calais Advertiser says that those who
doubt that business is improving should see
the increased amount of freight brought to
Calais weekly. 1t begins to look like old
times.
A correspondent of the Springvale Reporter
(Greenbacb) writing from North Shapleigh
says no one need be idle there who likes to
work Hargraves mill is turning ont goods
rapidly and they meet with ready sale. Car
penters are busy, building and repairing, and
store keepers are doing a good business.
The Wing learns from one of the Bangor
sailmakers that work with them has not been
so brisk for years, most Of the vessels, which
have repaired their sails as long as they would
hold together, being obliged to have new suits
of sails. The increased demand for vessels in
the coasting trade, and the increase in the
rates of freight enable the owners to make
more extensive repairs than they have been
able to do for some years past
Lewiston Journal reporter recently inter-
viewed leading cotton and shoe manufacturers
of Lewiston and Auburn. The mills of Lewis
ton are fortunate, as most of them have
enough cotton on hand bought at low prices,
to last until October. Bates and other of the
corporations will make good July dividends.
The Bates never saw a better season before the
war than for the last six months The Lincoln
mill is for sale, and parties are talking of buy
ing. Auburn has shipped $500 more cases of
shoes the last four months than in the same
time last year, and the prospects ahead are
good.
The business of the West Falmouth Manu-
featuring Company has increased four fold in
the last two years. A portion of this remarka-
Bile increase is due to the great merit of the
goods manufactured, but the most of it is to be
attributed to a general revival of business.
The company has been obliged this spring to
extend their facilities by adding a store-house
3Ox60 and enlarge their lighthouse to double its
former size. The surplus stock which was sup
posed to be sufficient to meet any demand up
to the first Of August, has all been exhausted.
The company has been obliged to resume the
manufacture of spokes and rims, thing they
have never before done during the months of
May, june and July, those months heretofore
having been devoted to the making of hubs
The Superintendent of the factory who has
been in the business 20 years says the present
outlook is the best he has ever seem The fac
tory will be run with an increased force to it's
full capacity through the year. But the signs
of prosperity are not confined to the factory.
There is activity throughout the town and
much building is going on. Mr.. Blake and
Mr.. Hicks are increasing the size of their
barns one half and Mr.. Leighton and Mr.. o.
Brion are building new and costly ones Mr..
West is building house and barn and the
Maine Central Railroad Co. is putting up a
new depot.