New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-12
WAY DOWN IN MAINE.
TIE VARIED INDUSTRIES OF TIE PINE TREE
STATE.

BANGOR Me- Aug (SpecaO-Few people out
side the state OF Maine and not all wlthh lis oouIs
realize the OF its Industries IL SONS 70 DC
the common impression that Maine IS a cold, barren
sort Of a place good To 60 to in summer to escape
,he heat and equally good to flee from IN winter
rho only Industries are supposed 10 be farming and
booming summer bOar1ers. Yet there are df1NcH
down the Penobscot River every year TO ms CITY
$50 600 900 feet Of lumber. the value oil winch
,s over 81 100000 From the forests around Lax"
Mooschcad alone 100000 feet of lumber arc rated
down the Penobscot and Kennebcc Rivers. Tbs
TOTAL lumber product Of the State is over S3oooooo
yearly. These logs are cut In winter by men VINO
live IN log camrs. In spring the same men get the
ocs on c fee OF the rivers and lakcs and when the
fec brcales up the lumber Is taken In charge % coh
panics who make business OF river drfVih| or
floating logs down stream TO the mills Each dlhccht
LOT IS nochcd with the owners private mark which
he can have registered. Notwithstanding this vast
destruction OF trees the ne" Ero"'" - O0'0N "
equal the Old -
The value of the manufactures Of thc State IS over
$50 600 900 annually. Of which the boots and shoes
made contribute sG.00O.0o0 and tho woolen goods
81 OcO 600. The ice business gives employment 10
= COO reoplc In winter. during cutting tmc' wh'h
I 600 600 tons are harvested. 1t also gives employ
ment 10 large number Of coastlng vessels to trans
rort the product Granite slate ard iron are produced
largely. There arc granite quar.!cs al Rockland'
Uellowell Frankfort North jay and other places.
AT Monsoon IS one of the largest slate mines In the
world consisting Of eighteen Immense quarri's' all
81 which appear TO be exhaustlfss. THOUSANDS Oh
dollars worth of slate quarried here, some ten 10
| twelve carloads being shipped daily. ~ B!owh-
vic about twenty FIVE miles from Monson. is another
sI,,o mine OF great size. In the adjoining town are
tho Kstardin Iron Works where extensive business
! IS done. 49, -
not grow in population. Many Of the young men
leave the farms as soon they are old enough and
90 IN roston New-York or the West. Aroostooi
county almost doubles lts population every ten years
Notwithstanding It's short summers and cold winters
q f. the best hay and potato section IN
! uo state The large crop OF potatoes grown
here every year has led 10 tho establishment
Of starch factories, and to-day more staici
ia made in Aroostoos County than In all the ret o
New England. The potato crop IS now ahout TWO AM
| - half million bushels. Tho county also produces
goo 600 bushels OF buchwhcat 100000 bushels OF oaiS
,5o 600 bushels OF wheat and 100000 tons 81 nay
perres grow I'm tho greatest profus!on all through III
cleared sections OF this comfy. Especially pioilil
are Strawberries and ra p6errie, 10 Ins 81 i Sel 1
stretches ten miles In length whore these berries sro'
"a the greatest abundance. 49,, , l., a.,
away counties. The writer hns recently Pa'Ao
some lime sections OF the country "herc me nous
who were not fairy educated, who did not real book
and papers. aHd who could not discuss question:,
The day ntellecntly. II these people are iar remove
nom schools they hire teachers TO come to their house
10 teach god siory Is told OF l,lble nlSSlG $50,
sont down through the Mooschcad Lake nciShbmhoo
last fan TO distribute Bibles and tracts among wiz
tic society supposed must be homo heather. VIE
Tho agent began to offer his literature The people 80
ancIy They iOld HIN they wanted neither h,s blbl
nor his insnnations, they were able and willing
nav All the Bibles they needed. aud II ne hhd an
GOOD ones TO soil they would buy, but they wrI
neither pauPcrs nor hcaihen The missionary ~
mcdiately departed Rest assured that no pOlltcl
who comes among these Maine people this fail WI
pull III" wool-trcc or any olher.oN"i ell ey ~.
! read think and investigate for themselves. Pcrhal
/ that is why Maine Is always a Republican state an
why sho VIII roll up an enormous majority ioF u
! party this fail