Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-10-03
State News.
HANCOCK.

| We have had great faith in the mines If
Maine. We have the copper. the silver and
the gold. We doubt the paving value of the
latter As yet. but the copper and silver we b..
lieve in. If some of our donbting friends
will go to Bluehili they will see thai tn re is
no lack Of ore, the rich quality of which can
not he disputed, and their views will be
avoidably changed. If crew of nine men,
kept at work twenty-four hours. send up
thirty tons of such ore-said to be eight per
cent. pure-worth S365. the future success
of copper mining in Maine is beyond a real
sonable doubt. Take from the above state
ment large margin. and still there is good
prospect of success. Nor Is the Douglass
the only mine at Biuehill whose success is tn
our mind. assured. The Bluehill AMI the Tw n
Lead are pursuing work systematically. and
we are told are both making copper matte,
nearly pure. Their ore is of the same char
| acter as the Douglass, and their works look
systematic and well conducted. Numerous
other mines afford equally good prospects,
but many are lying idle for want of working
capital. 1t will come before long.-Roek-
land Free Press.
kESNEBEC.
Deacon Hiram Tozer died at his home on
Summer street at three o'clock on Friday
morning, at the age of - years. Mr.. Tozer
was born in Sidney, Kenr ebec county. Me-,
in lS0S. and came to Newburyport in 1929,
when he was twenty-on one years old. and since
that time he has lived here, with the excep-
ton of few years, during which he lived on
a farm in West Newbury. In 1882. with ID.
W. O'Brien, he started democratic paper
in this town which was short lived. In 1888
he published monthly religious paper called
''The Monthly Paper" which also continued
but a short time. In 1884 he published the
Essex North Register. religious paper,
which was continued to 1887. when he began
the publication of the Watchtower. which
for several years was edited by David p.
Page and Roger S. Howard, teacher of the
high school. In 1912 he sold the Watchtow-
er, and began the publication of the Merri
mac Journal, which continued for about
year. when it was given up. In 1913 he
left the printing business and opened varie-
ty store on Washington street, where he con-
tinued in trade until he bought a farm in
West Newbury dozen years ago. when he
removed to that town and took up his resi-
dence on the farm. There he remained until
five years ago when he returned to this city.
Mr.. Tozer was held in the highest esteem in
this community and in West Newbury, a
man of the strictest integrity. He was one
of the oldest printers in Newburyport, and
an honor to the profession. -Nerburyport
Nass.) Herald.
KNOX
The Union Fish Co, of Camden have an
exhibit of their goods in the Mechanics Fair
of Boston, also their Miniature Sardine Fac
tory.
James. p. Stafford of Hope, recently de-
ceased, left Sl7 600 to the Universalist soci-
ETY. of South Hope and Hope Corner. His
children got nothing.
PIsCATAQUIS.
G. F. Danforth, Esq, of Bangor, Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue, states that a
single manufacturer in Bangor has paid tax
| enough, during the last eighteen months, to
equal the entire expense of the Revenue De-
partment in this district during the same
time. The district includes the counties of
Penobscot, Piscataquis, Aroostook, Hancock
and Washington.