The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-26
MAINE BUSINESS.
Lumber, Slate and Smaller Indus
tries and Their Products.

The Columbia FallslLumber Company
have full crews on the river making desper-
ate effort to get their last winters haul to
the saw.
Bangor lumbermen deny the report re-
Gently telegraphed to Boston papers that
they are anxious about getting the logs into
the main streams, and that unless rains fall
soon the prospects for getting the logs out
in season will not be good. A representa-
tive Of the Whig had an interview with a
prominent lumberman who says that he does
not anticipate any trouble. Although the
rains have held off the cold weather has
kept the snow and Ice in the woods from
wasting and large amount Of water rswill be
realized from this source. 1t is too early by
three weeks to form any correct estimate OF
the probabilities.
A company of New York capitalists have
traded for 5000 acres of land In GOuldsboro
including lands Of the Bingham purchase,
drindstone point and several other adjacent
lots. This land Is now owned principally by
Stephen l.. Kingsley and Charles d.
Hutchins. 1t has seven miles of shore front
and includes some Of the most desirable land
bordering on the bays The new company
proposes to lay out very large amount Of
money on the property Immediately after the
transfer is made. A steamer will be pur-
chased to run to Bar Harbor hotels and cot
tages Will be built aud 1t is expected that a
new summer resort will Immediately spring
into existence.
The MonsoD Maine Slate Co., has decided
to start up the Monson Pond quarry which
has been idle for number Of years past
All Of their milling Slate business will be
transferred to this quarry. NO roofing
states VIII be made there but its sheds will
be converted into a slate mill for the manu-
facture of all kinds of slate goods, the de-
mand for which Is rapidly Increasing. A
large amount OF new machinery will soon be
put In. About 90 men will be employed in
and about this one quarry. 1t is not de-
cided whether the Hebron quarry will be
operated this year or not but 1t undoubtedly
will be. If 1t Is there will then be five quar-
ries running at their full capacity. Changes
Will be made In the other quarries by which
a great increase will be made in the produe-
ton OF roofinglslates. The slate business Of
Monson has never looked so prosperous as
IL does today.
What was known as the Sullivan Falls
mine Is now only marked by pile Of broken
rock but In the days. when mems brains
were fired by the glitterlng prospects Of un-
told wealth, 1t seemed a bonanza and as
sumed corresponding proportions. Ground
was broken there in winter, and the first
thing that was struck by the prospectors
after going down through the frost was
vein 0t-Snakes And such snakes. There
were tiny, infant snakes that had Just been
ushered into this sinful world; there were
hoary headed old grandfathers, and uncles
and cousins and aunts. There were black
snakes, and green snakes, and yellow snakes
and every col0r-Of-the-rainbo snakes.
There were thousands in the colony. 1t
wasn't a very good paying vein; but some
Of the Maine gold mines didn't pan out so
well as this, even.-Ellsworth American.
The State of Maine Slate Company at
Blanchard have new rs or S0-horse power
boiler and engine. They will put in other
machinery and build slate shed and engine
house. They are having more orders than
they can I'LL, and are doing fine business.
The Bangor x Piscataquis Railroad Com
pany are putting in siding for them,
so they will be obliged to haul their slate
only few rods. 1t is expected that other
quarries near by will be opened in the
spring This Blanchard quarry is owned by
Bangor men.
The first consignment Of lDominick Vatro-
mela's Italians are bard at work on the line
of the new railroad between Dexter and
Dover. Within tan days 300 men will be en-
ployed on the road, and it will be but a few
weeks before 1000 laborers will be plying
pick and shovel.
The stockholders of the Clinton Dairying
Association have just elected officers as fol-
lows: President, N. E. Murray; secretary.
y. ii. Gerald; collector and treasurer. w. III
Stinson; directors, Alton Richardson. Lester
Roundy, George M. Stewart, George Kicker
A. 2. Brown, A. McNally.
The annual meeting Of the Bangor Horti-
cultural Society was held Tuesday Afternoon.
me election OF officers resulted in the choice
Oh the following: President, A, II. Simp-
son; vice president, Elijah Low: treasurer.
=. ?. Mheelwright; secretary, L. NJ. Bland
ing executive committee. S. G. Harlow, s.
ID, morrison, .. III. Ingalls,. The treasurer S
report showed a fund OF S304.48 on hand.