Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-11-15
State News.
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Mexsrs Charles Eaton and E. G. Sirnut o
Auburn under the firm name of Eaton &
Sfrout. have started a suspender mandatory
in that city.
The total expenditures of the current
month of the city of Lewiston. are sso.sI6
OF this sum over $1,000 went tn coupon
cutters
Ii is said that owing to short potato eror
and the consequent high prices, the quantity
of starch manufactured in Aroostook this
fall will be much less than the past few sea
sons. Some estimate that there will not be
more than third as much starch made in
Aroostook this fall As last--Haehias Rep
Hbiiean.
CUMBERLAND.
The Portland Press says that the fishing
season is about over. and the captains and
the owners of the many sehooners hailing
from Portland. are counting up the earnings
of most successful seasons work. 1t has
been the best season for them for many years
and many large fares have been taken. 4
large dealer saws it is safe 10 say that there
have been 100, 900 barrels of mackerel packed
in Portland this year. an increase of 0,oot
over last The business is rapidly increas.
ing and never before has it reached such pro-
portions as at present. An immense amour,
of money is invested.
The Cape Elizabeth Sentinel gives the fol.
lowing interesting description of the fishing
interests of that town: There are in our
midst some forty men, captains of yes els
plying between foreign and domestic ports,
Exclusive of those engaged in the fishing
business. managing and controlling vessel
property valued at leas; at half a million
dollars. The larger part of these vessels are
engaged in lucrative business and are pay
ing their owners from ten to twenty per cent
on the money invested. There are alsoov
twenty vessels engaged in the fishing bust
ness, employing the two hundred able bodied
men that comprise the larger half of our
community.
HANCoCK.
The first lot Of ore shipped from the Deer
Isle mine has led a somewhat oheckered
career and has finally brought up in a strange
locality. The ore was shipped TO Deer Isle,
Me-, to ST. John, n. b., and there transferred
as ballast to the ship jamestown" which
sailed for Swansea, England, with a cargo OF
lumber. When nearly across, heavy gales
were encountered which caused considerable
leakage ana drove ntT Udck lur IlaUN udNs.
until it was decided to return to st. John.
repair damages and take fresh start. On
her second attempt to cross she became
and was abandoned at sea.
Since then numerous steamers and sailing
vessels have encountered the craft, but she
was finally supposed to have gone to the bot
tom. 1t seems, however, that after drifting
about in midocean for an indefinite length OF
time, the vessel stranded on the coast of Ice
land, where she still remains. Mining Jour
nal.
PENoBsCOT.
The International Railway Company have
had two surveying parties in Northern Maine
during the past season. Supt. McFee states
positively that the work of building the road
will be commenced early next spring and
pushed vigorously.
The threat of the Maine Central and the
Eastern Railroads through their explorers in
the woods, to build a parallel and rival road
to the European is having some effect upon
the movement Of travel and freight westward
bound from this city. We are told there is
large increase both of travel and freight
from this city over the Boston and Maine to
Boston, very perceptibly more than its
ratable percentage of the general increase OF
business over itself and the Eastern. This
is occasioned, no doubt. by feeling on the
part of the +. & n. A. Road, that it had not
merited this hostility from roads that it had
done so much heretofore to feed and support,
and from like feeling on the part of citizens
outside of anv railroad interests, that this
proposed northern route world tend to direct
the trade of Piscataquis and Aroostook from
Bangor - Bangor Commercial
Says the Bath Times: The late rains
have raised the water in the ice ponds to a
considerable height for cutting ice the COM
ing winter. The field at the corner of High
and Marshal streets is overflowed to the
height of the dam built in the northern side.
Should the prospect for selling ice prove good
there will be large amount cut in the ponds
about this city and vicinity.
The Pine Grove Ice Co. at Brownies Point.
Bowdonham, is erecting a new elevator, and
making preparations to put up 10000 tons
of ice the coming winter, should the season
prove favorable. This company has advan-
tages for storing and shipping ice uneqnaled
by any. They have a field of hundreds
of acres to choose from and can load
ships of 90 feet draft.-Richmond Bee.
WAsHISGToS.
The Sentinel says that there are fifteen
sardine factories now running in Eastport.
employing from eight hundred to one thou
sand hands. Five or six of the facto-
ries also run can-making shops in connec-
ton with the factories.
YORK.
The Biddeford journal says: The lum-
bermen are preparing for winter in the
woods. They expect to cut an unusually
large amount Of timber should the weather
prove advantageous. Joseph Hobson alone
expects to float about 10000. 900 feet OF hem
lock. pine ard spruce logs during the winter.
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