The Portland daily press., 1881-10-29
What the Portland & Ogdensburg is
Doing.

| ouired to take out license from the Internal
| Revenue office, but now no such restriction j;
necessary. This increase of young men, with
| their families, has made rents active. One
| gentleman said that he owned several houses
| and, until short time ago, he had difficulty
| in securing tenants for them. Now they are
| in demand, on good paying leases. To give an
| idea of the class of people, and the business
brought here, we may mention Mr.. Best, the
owner Of the great beef refrigerator, who for
merly resided in Saccarappa, but now lives
here, and has established a large business in
town; the gentlemen who have leased Doten's
mill and fitted up a furniture mandatory
| there; the great works of the Portland Stove
Foundry Company with their employes-on
the Dump, which has grown from small be-
ginnings; the packing factory of behring's,
burned the other night, but which will soon
be in full blast again. We merely mention
these few as samples of what we are doing in
Portland. Then there is the Mutual Life In
| surance Company of Maine, has re-
moved here from Boston-with its large stall
of clerks and their families, all of whom are a
valuable addition to the community, and may
properly be considered most important indus
try The taxes are lower than any year since
1864, before the great fire and the railroad aid
added such terrible burden for our people to
stagger under.
The Maine Farmer and the other journals
of the State deeply interested in agriculture,
have given testimony to the good crops with
which the State has been blessed the past year.
Now let us see how, in this section, farmers
have done. We have already spoken Of the
immense amount of cabhages shipped away
from the Cape. There, and at Spurwink, es-
pecially, cabbages, beets and turnips are the
staple products. Every year, after September,
they flow in a steady stream into Portland
This year, over 1000 tons of cabbages were
raised on that territory. G. g. Jose, j. Brown,
J. S., A. S., and G. G. Jordan raised between
thirty-five and forty tons each. Last Friday,
J. Ell. Poor weighed seventy loads and the 9TH
er scales did large business. All this stuff
was sent to Philadelphia. Baltimore and Nor
folk, instead of being consigned to points in
New England Messrs. I. Berry, Hodgdon
Bros, and j. I. Libby did the most of the
shipping. At this time last year cabbages
were worth $40 ton; this year they bring $50,
owing to the drought at the South and West
Turnips, then worth IS, now command $15'
and beets, at S15o barrel are higher than
for years.
The wholesale grocers Of Portland have done
better business than for long time. Their
sales were 20 per cent more Tor July, SO per
cent. more each for August and September,
and 10 per cent moro for October, thus far,
than the year previous. The gentleman who
q IL. ! g.,
any one dealer, but for the average tradesman.
The losses on these sales were one-quarter less
than they were last year, and depreciation
nothing. The dry goods dealer has had
splendid trade, both wholesale and retail. As
an instance of the growth of the former, we
may mention the magnificent new warehouse
of Storer Brothers; of the latter, we may refer
to the fact that the houses Of Eastman Bros &
Bancroft, and Turner Bros. sold more high
priced goods, of certain class, in one month
this year than in whole year before The
class of customers, who used to think they
must buy these goods in Boston, purchased of
these firms because they got as good variety
and as good bargains as at the Hub. And 9TH
er firms had a like experience.
The canned goods packers made deal of
money. A merchant wrote for Il, 1000 dozen of
goods, and offered 81 Is per dozen. In return
he was told he could have them for $125, and
the refusal, at that price, for week Two
days after the week expired he offered to pay
that sum, and opened his eyes when told he
| must pay $1.50. Finally, he compromised for
$40. Now these goods can be sold at good
profit, as is known, for $100 per dozen, and
while the large packers realized $1.20 on an
average the small ones, who were able to hold
on to their goods longer, got $1.40-a splendid
profit for both. TIE eyaporated apple faeto-
ries made very large sums. The crop was
large, and those apples that were frozen by the
cold snap, iniuring them for packing, were
good for evaporating. They are evaporated
| and when sold at ten cents, good profs is
made, and yet the owners of the factories have
been selling at thirteen and fourteen cents, and
then customers couldn't get all they wanted,
even at fifteen cents One man ordered 5000
cases, and couldn't get them at tao latter fig
ure. The cheese factories, that are satisfied
with eleven cents, got thirteen or fourteen
| The lumber dealers would have sold a great
deal more stock, the commission merchants
say, if they had not advanced prices just as
the demand came, but the Lumbar will eyentu-
| ally be sold all the same.
| The other Cay the PRESS mentioned the fact
| OF the completion of an arrangement By the
Ogdensburg road by which through freights to
the West could be obtained. Mr.. Tolman, the
freight agent of that road, has done an excel
| lent job. By arrangement with the freight
agents of the Ogdensburg and Lake Cham
| Mo and Tok Gbomplair
roads the three corporations have united in g
tariff which will go into effect Nov. LIST By
which goods of all kinds can be shipped from
| Portland, and, in fact from Maine. to al
| points on these lines, as quickly and as cheap
| ly as by any other route known. By means o.
this arrangement goods can now be introduced
| into new towns and cities in other States. In
| connection with the Ogdensburg and Lake
| Champlain We Lave the Rome, Waterfowl
and Ogdensburg, with its largo cities ant
fiourishing manufacturing towns. We know
of large firm in Waterloo, N. T., manufac
turers of snow shoyels, who have never beer
| able to put their goods into Maine because the
delay of transhipment by different roads, and
the various freight charges have eaten up al
| the profit Now this firm proposes to introduce
] their goods Another firm are large manu-
facturers of folding tables. They wish to com'
| to Maine. Then there are our own dealers
| One large fish establishment in Portland car
now put its goods into Malone and Syracuse
| A wholesale dry goods firm has just shipped
two tons of dry goods over the new route
Another firm is shipping OIL Immense guam
tiles of canned goods have been despatched
At their freight house Mr.. Tolman has had
signs put up over the various doorways ex
| planning where goods presented there are t.
go. The cars are packed SO that at the neares
station goods intended to be taken out there
may not disturb freight bound farther, while
the through freight is put by itself. Already
the average number of cars daily loading will
through freight is twelve, and yet but few
weeks have elapsed since the new arrangement
was made. When the road gets its wharye
built, close at hand, it will have as good facil
tiles for the shipment of grain as could be de
sired, and that will come in time.
Another feature that is to be of great i'm
ortance to Portland is the construction of al
elevator by the Boston and Name on its wharf
The Crank Trunk needs for its ocean traffi'
| tho full use of the elevator on t4alt's Gharf