Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-12
INDUSTRIES or SOUTH GAR
DINER.


Factory - HxceIsior nlnl - Immense
Pulp Works Now Being Erected
The pretty village of South Gardiner.
= which lies warm and sunny along the west
bank Of the Kenaebec, il ore Of the busy
" and growing places on the river. There 10
not iosfer here remarked bystander At
> the station to the Journal man while waiting
for the east bound evening train, on Friday !;
. remark confirmed BY m~ry ssth whom we
talked. and one which will prove its own
confirmation TO vhosoever visits its many
growing industries.
Not many years ago Sou;h GarIiner station
OF the Maine Central was but al old, ricke,y
r platform, and the village consisted Of Only
three OF four houses. Nos there 10 fac
depot, extensive mills. two halls, q fine
school house, FIRE engine house. ard the vii
iage extends along the river and railroad for
nearly = mile. The earliest interes. % locate
here was that Of lumber, and the Lawrence
Brothers established their steam mill here in
1854, running it only few months Of the
summer. During the thirfy-fve years which |
have INTERVIEWED, these gentlemen have been |
night here, solid firm of splendid business
men, to whom the business and prosperity of |
South Gardiner 10 largely due. Later came
the Bradstreet Brothers, who built fine |
steam mill. and who.cst an immense amount |
OF lumber each summer. The firm 10 also
largely interested in ice, and their operations
are great advantage to the place. MIR. Van
X. Beedle ID enlsrging bis excelsior anil bed
STAT work.. and there lisa growing demand for |
the products Of his factory. A few years
nnce the Lawrence Bro Tiers established a
kindling- wood factory, which is doing large
business, and now puts up 10000 bundles,
or about car load day-what vas formerly
the useless spruce edgings being now con-
vtrted into this product. This firm employs
one hundred men, in all departments, and
cuts about four thousand feet of lumber
day, 5000 feet being long lumber.
The latest industry to be established here
is the immense pulp works Of the Richards
Paper Company Of Gardiner, who have now
q large crew Of workmen employed in
s""'"s i"r the iounaaeioh Oh the large o0iio
i"s 'ney are 70 erec' iof this purpose Ahis
w '''"'eu JUST south oi uhe ofau''fee'
Brothers yards. Some idea of its magnitude
may be imagined when it is stated that the
mil 10 ~ oe N'"A"oo iee'' l. Snape"'
ri'y "o'Ahen anu ABOUT twenty teams
are now at work here, the grading being
uone " eo"'iac' ny a. H. Fo''er Oh "afu'her'
n''oA arc " oe iufhishea ior Tue ~ofA' W
gym Vi 'Aie anu nj INC
'"o''si "orA mas oesh let 70 Messfs' buShy
i'""e Vi "~'ef'iiie' ihi' eihofaoe' Tie
'o""1"'""' '"'n'"ey'' ooi'er nou'e' anu GU ,
s'"e anu '""A 'e''ng'' opecihcaliohs iof
'he WOOD WORK are 10 be opened AZ the COM
pAhy ONCE AZ "ardiher To-Day ana the plans
c"h oe examined tor All WORK ~heh proposals .
VIII De received. ms mill Is TO De what Is
termed 'suiphite process MILL ana VIII
nave capacity OF WE'VE tons OF pup per
day. The mill Is to use whole logs Tor the
manufacture OF the pulp, and Will give en-
pioyment 10 forty operatives. 1t Is expected
that the works Will be completed IN March
next. at total cost of about Sl25,OO0 A
large wharf 10 to be built In the spring.
The building of this mill, which covers 50
large an area OF ground, has rendered 1t ne
cessary for the old Ezekiel Sawyer lot to be
occupied by 1T, and the buildings on this lot
were moved yesterday. 1his Work was
necessary TO Dc done on SUNDAY as they were
moved across the Name Central track to
lot on the main street.
Nooceabie improvements are gong on IN
many ways throughout the village A new
Grand Army hall was ouiit last season. anu
now extensive repairs are being made upon
the union-Congrega,ionai church, which Will
cost about Sl9Uo. lhere are also improve