Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-10-17
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0csusry, 1brist and Progress on the
East SIDE.
People sho have spsre cash might fnd i.
TO their adsaEtsxs to Look about them here
in Ausu,ts. Truth !, stranger than fiction
10 IL hss been sid and Demonstrated tiEse
and again- II 10 being demonstrated right
here ia tswa unaer our vey eyes. cIrca-
lars frcm Yes. asi South srs read srd re-
read till the inyessor ccmss :, believe that
those regions SIC fairly sci Jag to giys upl
immense sains With bat Little golden bsit
Better take an excursion stoa. Augusta;
say on the East Side for Instance Isvill
cost less than thousand mile riie away
and doab:iess be quite ~ profitable.
Its ssfs 70 ssy that already ovsr 800, 900
hiss been expeaded on the casisnce Fibre
compsnJs ns~ mill that 10 nov nearly
completed. Thee or fonr gaogs of men
Numbering oser thirty in sIi are still a.
vork there putting on the asishisx tosehs.
and probably in less than month the mill
sill be running. When all the large
sDd peculiar machinery I running I'll
vlil Indeed afford a5yei sixis.. Then
befsr description can be written than a,
tie present time. Even now the mamme,a |
watts and netsofx Of hinge ripc, afford |
puzzle TO the uninitisted observer. Fire
ha. already been kins.led in the huge fur
Mares for dying them out and Mr.. Roa.h |
vho has them IN charge Is piiIiog himself /
in tina, the brick work Of the farnsee, |
anil boilers 10 drying out Ii perfeet manner |
withcu, cracking or n:splseing If brick or /
mortar. The superintendent, Mr.. Lyman,
10 hayiag his ciiiGe connected with the mill /
~ network Of electric wires. Having
these attached to All ni!ea,or directly over
his desk BY mesrs Of these he can tell At a /
glance the number Of pounds Of steam
being carried, the pressure on the dize,ters,
temp nature etc etc. 10 fact all the little de-
tails that TO ascertain which would Otherwise |
nscessitste . tour Of the mill This estab- |
lishment will consume tsice the wood usei /
in the old N u
1--WE cant beg n TO fil our orders said /
Superintendent Lyman in response to
Journal reporters question.
To ~hs. doyou attribute this
THE demand Is greater. The price Of |
pulp ha, gone up. Last year the trade wa,
quite dull"
ID yon think the tariff il in any way
orsible for this enhanced prlcsi
mo sir. The demand for pulp has in.
essa,ed very fast and every mill in this and .
other States as far as know are short Of
pulp | refused last week orders fortven.
~ carloads. No its not tariff that has in
c'easri the price. for Canadian pulp mills
arr 10 t slme coalition"
Lsav' nv here three minute walk will
take one to Bangs Bros new sash and blind
factory which IL now running on fall time
with about fifty employees and yet unable 10
keep mp with the orders that are flowing in
SO large is The demand tina, the firm con
Template running right as well as day
crew.
Their Few office in front of the mill and
facing Maple street has just been completed
on the exterior and is both tasty and com
modiots, It h. built Directly over the
boiler h3use and IL connected with Maple
street by bridge 80 feet In length over
the driveway. The effle. Ia 20x41 and
lighted hy windov, of fancy sash the lishts
belny of the different hind, furnished by
the Arm. aui inelnd,s bevelled plate glass
in the door and all the yari. ties Of eolorel
vla.s in the windows. The whole building
T., ItyLted with ~ elsct,ic l.mp. tho firm
Furnishing their own powey
The eity has recently extended the sewer
that masses in the pnIly on the south side
of the mill ana which uke, the wash from
H.nyor .tree, aqd the William, field This
has enabled tbs firm TO eemp'ete a nea,
driveway around She entire pl,nt snl also
affords oprortunlty for work to begin on
aillue i, for new street tn conueet Mamie
ard BANGOR streets
II would like for some one I, tell me.
said +. member Of the firm. why IL ia that
some of our caoitsEsts don't build on such
lots a. these. They could ca,i'y make ZEN
ppr cent. on their money"
"Why don't huildq Simply because
my bn,ne,s requires all my ii ne and
money. I conli guarantee tenants for six
or seven su h houses from tight amo,g my
men who want To p.t rents and cant Oae
of nv wotkmeu a compelled to live in
It.lloweil because he eap's g,ta .uitibie
rent IA this city,"
II ta,t f,- from h, re 60 sn to the estab
ii .bment of ne G.. nca & M,rse concern.
and u1lrs, one yi,i,s he r. often he vii be
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