Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-16
BUsINH,a MATTERS.

OF . street railway for RocklApd.
Libby's mill 10 to furnish power for the
new electric light plant for Dexter.
The Dover and Foxcroft Water Co., has
put In 76 services this season. the total nov
being 90l.
The Whitman Agricultural work factory
Auburn, will this week be ready To receive
machinery.
J. B. Williams s Co. are making arrange
meots to start . voolen mill in Fort Fair
field village.
Th0maston's nine new lime kilns are near
ly ready for business, six Of the number
being now in operation.
The North Franklin Telegraph Co. . line 10
now in good working order to King6eld, and
the wires from that point - Eustis are up.
President Van Horne Of the Canadian Pa
cifc says there will be no Canadian line Of
fast steamers untfi his company builds them.
Several contracts Of $4,000 and l0O, 600
feet Of lumber have been made by Embden
farmers for the shank factory at North An
con. 1t 10 soft wood.
Landlord Chas. Sawyer. of the Lake
House, 10 contemplating starting . daily
stage from Greenville to Kineo to convey
the United Statss mail.
Mr.. Arthur Sawyer, of Greenville, re-
Gently put . new water wheel Of his own in
vention into the Eveleth mill at Shirley. 1t
was tested Wednesday and found to be q
success.
The extension of Messrs Critchett, Sib-
ley Co.. shoe factory in Belfast, shows .
decided improvement, making the factory. in
point of Of convenience, rank with any In
the State.
It 10 said the Petite Menan Land Company
will have the largest park in the United
States. 1t will contain about 700 acres and
1t takes four miles Of wire netting, 8 feet
high, to 20 around it.
Belfast 10 to have Board Of Trade. The
first meeting will be held at the city govern
ment rooms on Thursday, Dec. 10th. 1t 10
hoped our business men will push this mat
ter to successful issue.
The exterior Of the West Cove Hotel at
Mooshead Lake has been finished and the
in.erior partly completed. Work has been
suspended for the winter and the finishing
touches will be put on in the spring.
Perry Bros. Of Rockland have purchased
the schooner o. M. Marratt of Boothbay par
ties. She will receive thorough repairs and
10 then to be used in the lime coasting busi-
ness between 2ockland and New York.
The Dover and Foxcroft Board Of Trade
has 4 membership of ninety men. represent
ing nearly every business interest in the two
villages. The project Of establishing boot
and shoe factory 10 already taking form.
The quarry on Timothy Bryant's farm in
Jay. lately opened by Hermon Sanborn, gives
employment to many in that neighborhood.
Mr.. Sanbsrn expects to have force oftwenty
paving cutters ut work before the close of the
season.
F. W. Brown has four camps built on
Spruce Mountain, franklin county. and will
run 4 crew of about twenty men this winter.
He intends to cut about one million feet and
will land it on Webb's river Just below Ber-
rvs Mills.
The veneer factory at Greenville has
enough lumber to keep the mill in operation
all winter, and twelve men are employed
there. Shipping is kept up all the time and
the factory has large number Of orders
ahead to be filled.
lowell have recently begun the manufacture
of "twills," about Is looms having been
started the first Of the present month. Here
running 3e4 looms.
There Is quite . business carried on in
Carthage. cutting poplar. Several thousand
cords are going out this winter and next
spring. Some of this is to be hauled to
North Jay and some to be run down the
Seven Mile Brook to the river.
Fifty oxen, l24 horses and 362 men will
be employed this season by the Machias Piv-
er lumbermen. Holway. Sullivan L Co., ex-
pect to cut in six million. These are the
principal operators. C. Sullivan, Eeq., At
wbitneyville. will cut in, probably, three
million.
At their meeting Wednesday evening the
Board Of Trade instructed their secretary to
advertise in the Boston papers soliciting cor
respOndence from parties wishing to locate
shoe factory, to consider inducements
which Rockland will offer to have such .
factory located in that city.
D. Mansfield Z. Co.. Orono, have recently
been making extensive Improvements At
their cant dog factory, where the Orono can't
dog 10 made, the increase in the sales making
It necessary for them to put in an electric
dynamo in order to run nights, % - 70 be
able to keep up with their orders.
Last week finished up the sardine packing
business at Eastport for the season. The
Sentinel says that while the factories there
that have been in operation this season have
packed fair amount Of goods, yet the total
pack is far below that Of last year, - some
Of the factories have not packed = case,
remaining closed the whole season.
McInnis Leighton Of West Mt. Vernon
have shut down for repairs. They are about
building new aume and twenty-five foot
penstock. They have just closed contract
to make cases for Morton 4 Howe Of South
Fayette which will require about eighty
cords Of stock yesr, will also buy and saw
into squares 200 cords of white birch this