The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-03-04


their apples at an extra price. J. p. Rich
ardson has made and sold three thousand
and SIX hundred apple barrels this season.
he mas large lot OF timber at his mill for
the manufacture OF barrels another year.
DR.. w. T. Harris, United States commits
si0nei OF educationer and President Eliot Of
Harvard. have informed Vice President Stet-
son son, OF tne Maine Chatauqua Union that they
Will accent the invitation of the Union to
speak at Fryeburg next summer on teachers
day.
A number OF seizures of potato smuRRIers
who were trying to run past the custom In
spect0rs at H0utOn have been made aud has
pretty effeetuslly stopped the business.
Many Provincial farmers are now hauling In
tneir potatoes and are paying duties on them
a. the present prices enable them TO do.
This Is proving quite source Of revenue at
Houlton custom house.
b. w; Counce Of fhomaston, Commis-
si0Der Of Sea and Shore Fisheries, expresses
himself as confident that the porey business
viii be- good the coming season. 1t is report
ed that one old factory worth two thousand
dollars has been leased for ten years for over
ten thousand dollars. With a good porgy
year, Maine will be indeed fortunate.
At Fort Frir6eld, potatoes have been pour
Ing into the market In a steady stream since
FCob hulC anu otili bAcy COtut. II Is 6NlQ
that considerable quantities. are yet In the
hands Of the farmers, held for q rise, they
are quoted at 81 go per barrel now and IRE
snapped up as soon as they arrive. Potatoes
are keeping we'll and the quality Of those on
hand now has never been surpassed.
The new schooner which is being built In
CapI. Barbours yard at Brewer Is expected
to be ready for launching before the Ice Is
out OF the river and will 90 into the coasting
trade early this spring. The vessel Is built
for great freight carrier, having deep
hold. Probably her owners are already fg-
uring just how many tons Of Penobscot Ice
she will carry into New York, for Ice Is the
freights this year.
Says the Aroostook Republican: Just give
us q railroad up here, and the great West
with its miles Of proftless wheat and coru-
fields that interp0se between farmers there,
and enforce the disadvantages Of Isolation,
solitude and unsociaDility, can 90 TO grass.
Aroostook is ahead Of IL now for every body
but the capitalist and speculator, and with
the Direct Line she will be out of sight In
social and educational privileges. and In
fact. everything that goes to make up de-
sirable place to locate In.
Another Of the hourshing towns that were
called into being by the extension Of the
Canadian Pacific through Maine Is Schools.
There Is mill there built by Frank Cush-
man to saw white birch into spool bars. The
settlement has store which belongs TO Mr..
Cushman, and Is run by his clerk, Harry
Towle, and also boarding house. The mill
runs five saws and works up per day about
thirty cords Of birch into spool bars. IL en-
ploys thirty men, and with those that work
in the woods cutting and hauling for the
mill, make the pay roll count to upwards Of
500. The spool bars are mostly shipped to
Scotland but some are TO be sent to Foxcroft
and some to Willimantic.
The ways Of the viOlators OF the lobster
law are crooked indeed. Ii Is said they take
advantage of the law allowing putting the
meat IN pickle, to work off many undersiZed
Holsters Some also have been known to
send off Holsters that were almost dead when
boiled. These are sent TO New York, where
there are no restrictions, and, 1t Is supposed,
20 on to the free lunch counters OF saloons
There Is one lobster pasture of Vinalhaven,
1t Is said, where the owners put every fall
some $4,000 Holsters. which are there fed
with barrels Of fish offal. The Holsters are
bought by the piece and after attaining
good plump size, are sold by the pound, max
ing good profit. During the winter the
crustaceans bury themselves In the bottom
OF the pen and when wanted are raked out
OF some two feet Of mud.