Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-21

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1t has been Quite the custom heretofore fol-
drovers from the ~estern part Of she Stat
TO buy csttle 10 Aroostook and drive then
across the eouutry for local sales or to b.
fatteBrd for the Brighton market. The neu
slsu ghter house in Houlton will turn this tide
and cause the cattle to be fAttened at home
Among the novel exports from this county
is cedar bark. Parties at Caribou have be-
gun to gather the bark about the shingle
mills and other places and ship If to Massa-
chusetts, where it is manufactured into a
coarse paper to be used under carpets to
keep away the moths and other insects.
| The Lewiston Journal once made the state
ment that the destruction of Maine woods
would soon be living issue" to which the
Boston Herald replyed: "After the woods are
all cut down, and that isn't far ahead at the
present rate, We should say it would be q
dead issue" Now the Aroostook Pioneer
comes forward and says that the whole thing
depends upon location. The value of farms
in Aroostook, which have been carved out of
the forests, is many times that of uncleared
acres. As agriculture is the wealth of our
State, the more acres under cultivation the
more annual income. In those counties,
however, where wood-lots are the most valu-
able portion Of the rural districts, their
destruction becoms question of Importance.
The County Commissioners have surveyed
and located a road from Van Buren, to the
east of Long Lake in the town of Madawaska,
a distance of twenty miles. Ii is a very level
route, and through excellent farming land
which, for want of q road. has remained q
'thowling wilderness" Five miles of it are
in Van Buren,, thence across township No.
II. Range 8. owned by Hinckley Egery
heirs, and across q corner Of Grand Isle to
Madawaska.
| A. tho m thopo ahout r..
FIVE parties in this county engaged in hop
raising Last year, on account of the short
ness of the crop elsewhere, as high as 70
cents a pound was paid the farmers for their
product, but this year the price was "a cents.
As half ton can be raised to the acre as
cheaply as other special crops. there is still a
good profit for those engaged in the business.
CUMBERLAND.
The committee who were appointed to Sc
lect man as superintendent of the workshop
of the Maine State Reform school have chos-
en- MIR. H. II. Houghton, of Auburn, lately
of Bates machine shop and man of wide
experience. The committee on the Reform
School had 4 meeting yesterday to select a
class of twelve to begin work at once.
Tools for twelve have been purchased to the
extent of 1928, including 1922 worth for the
general bench. Before winter is over lathes
anu WOOu machines Will Uc put lEtO Tue suOp
1t is designed to offer the machine shops as
an incentive to good behavior.
Adjutant General George l.. Besl. Colonel
John +. Richardson. Colonel W. A. Boothbv.
Colenel j. T Richardson and Colonel +. w.
Guptill held a conference at the Falmouth
Hotel Monday evening concerning the charges
preferred against Captain c. w. Davis OF
Co. B., First Regiment. Their report will
not be made public at present.
Hon. T. Is. Reed has sent BoswOrth Post
G. A. R., of Portland, a reQuisitiOn upon the
military authorities at Staten Island, for six
condemned pieces of ordnance with ball to
20 with them, TO be used in the proposed SOL
diers' and sailors monument. The Post has
chosen q committee to take necessary steps
to obtain the ordnance.
1t 10 stated that the winter fishing of the
Portland fleet will be almost a complete fail
ure, owing to the presence, in unusually large
numbers of dog fish, that eat of the lines Of
the nets, besides driving OF the fish.
| OXFORD.
| There was quite an excitement near Frye
burg last Sunday. Mr.. Mortimer Burnham
was in the woods near the railroad track and
when near the road that used to lead to
Morse's Mills, he found part of a human
skeleton. The skull was nearly perfect, the
lower Jaw and part of the teeth being gone.
He found the bones of one arm, one leg and
a few of the vertebra. There 10 evidently
some mystery connected with this skeleton.
Two or three years ago, Peter Wiley and
Nathan Osgood found some clothing within
a few rods Of where these bones were found
| PIsCATAoUIs.
''Fin" Butterfeld of Concord, N. H., tells
a thrilling story Of his experience in the
Maine woods during Mondays gale the
18th inst He was there on q hunting expedi-
ton in company with Smith West and two
companions, and on that day was encamped
at the headquarters of Pleasant river, ten
miles south Of Moosehead Lake. The wind
blew some in the morning, but about noon it
began in earnest. The camp blew away and
the giants of the forest began to fall like
rain. Tuesday morning they started to get
out of what was woods when they went in,
taking with them only guns and
blankets. The first day they walked
81 hours, and only made two miles, and the
second day in III hours they advanced only
four miles. They had to literally chop their
way out, and on the second day were met by
a gang Of men who had started in after them
but had only cut path of five miles in that
time. The scene beRgard description. One
man had tour yoke of oxen and five pairs of
horses at a camp in the devastated region, all
be brought out nor could feed be got to them.
The party had an experience which money
could not hire them to go through again.
AT LARGE.
During the past year quite extensive i'm
provements have beeh made along the line of
the Knox & Lincoln Railroad. All the eta
ton houses have been repaired and reprinted,
the ferry and its landings have been thorough
ly overhauled. 500 tons Of steel rails have
been laid, an expensive trestle near Thomas
ton has been left by changing the track a short
distance to the north, and trestle near War
rem is new being filled in to make solid
road-bed. A large portion Of the track has
been rebailasted and ali the bridges put in
frst-class order. The balance sheet for the
year will show larger gross earnings than
ever before except in 1874. At the present
time tie Rockland newspapers are discussing
the building Of a narrow guage railroad from
Rocklsnd to Liberty through prosperous
section of Maine. II built it would proba-
bly, add considerably to the freigh, and pas
senyer traffic of the Knox and Lincoln.
| Mr. W. j. Melvin, editor Of Warren Mass.
Herald, vas cured of neuralgia by St. Jacobs
Oil.