Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-07


Garner w iicox and SOME others settled on
lots near the mill to the north and west. Mr.
Ball soon after sold his interest in the mill
To his partner, Mr.. Huse and commenced
Masking the fine farm near the mill upon
which his son Mr., Albert Bail now lives. In
$50. Mr.. Huse sold the mill To John T.
Roberts and Franklin Ball who carried it on
until 1870 when they sold To Hon. David
Dudley of Presque Isle. Mr.. Dudley mad.
extensive repairs upon the mill and also
built a store and entered into trade He also
devoted himself somewhat extensively 10
farming upon the land near the mill In
Isl he sold the mill to Mes-rs. Stewart AMI
Morton the present proprietors, who made
extensive additions and put in a rotary saw
and planer. The new firm had succeeded in
establishing a good business when, in the
summer of lsi1. a fierce forest fire swept
down the valley of the stream consuming in
a short time the mill and all buildings con
nected " it'll H. the new starch factory Just
completed by Messrs. johnson & Phair, Mr..
Albert Balls barn and outbuildings and at
one time threatened u consume the entire
village. The bridge across the stream near
the mill was also burned and il was only by
the greatest exertion on the part of those
present that the village was saved from
total destruction. The events of
This Disastrous Fire
are still spoken of BY the residents of the
village A. an experience never TO be forgot
ten by those who passed through it. Messrs.
Stewart and Morton were in no way dis
couraged by their great loss but at once set
about the work of rebuilding the mill. This
work they pushed with scr much vigor and
energy that by fall of the same year the new
mill was completed, machinery put in and
in successful operation. The mill now cont
tiins a rotary two shingle machines, planer,
,rl4srr and other minor machinery. 1t turns
out upwards of six million shingles per year
which are hauled by teams to the station at
Prcsque Isle and shipped to Boston and
Prov idencr. Nearly three fourths of all the
cedar sawed at this mill is cut by the firm on
lands farther up the stream and tloated To the
mill in the log. The remainder of the stock
Is purchased from the settlers in the yicin-
ly- The rotary Is At present used for saving
custom logs wholly and saws about POO 600
feet annually. Messrs. Stewart and Morton
are also quite extensively engaged in farm
ing AMI each has fine two-story house
with handsome onthuldings and pleasant
grounds on the street beyond the mill.
Mcssrs. johnson and Phair built a starch
factory ut Balls Mills, which was haplly
completed in the summer of 1871 and the
machinery not all in place when it was en-
tircly consumed bv the disastrous fire de
scrihcd above. Thi. resulted in much in
convenience 10 the farmers of the vicinity
Who had planted large fields of potatoes
with the expectation of delivering them at
this factory in the fall The potato crop
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