The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-10-20
Concerning Local Industries.

The shoe factory OF MeSSrS. Crltcnett, SlD-
ley & Co., Belfast, has had an excellent run
of business the past season, and work is now
brisk. Two hundred and seventy-five hands
are employed and the prospect is that work
will be good all winter
Last Friday morning Conductor Sullivan
brought in eighteen loaded cars of freight
the largest freight train ever hauled in on
the Belfast branch. The branch is particle
pating in the general prosperity of the Maine
Central, and the freight traffic is rapidly in
creasing.
Sherman & Co., manufacturers of the new
pillow coultcrs, on the East Side, are meeting
with excellent success and are shipping their
goods. Owing to the lack of water the fac
tories ON Goose river only run half of the
time. The water was never known to be so
low. The fall rains will, however, start up
our East Side industries.
MAYO & White, manufacturers of light
summer beverages, have had good seasons
work, and are still manufacturing. They
have put up this season 100000 bottles,
against 10000 last year. Next season they
will add other labor saving machinery and
endeavor to extend their sales. Their goods
have acquired a great reputation, and the
business is assuming large proportions,
PATENT MEDICINES. The Dana Sarsapa-
rilla Company are making extensive prepar
ations for next years business, which it is
intended shall be the largest in it's history
The new brick store house is completed, and
the medicines now stored in the basement of
the factory will be moved there The new
building, while plain, has d touch of orna-
mentation on the roof which is surmounted
by tower. The basement of the factory
will be mostly given up to printing and the
storing of paper. Between 800 and 400 tons
of paper have been ordered and will soon
arrive. Ihe new paper to be published this
winter in the interest of the medicine will
be an eight page publication the size of the
Boston Daily Globe. The $4,000 press from
r. Hoe & Co. will not be completed this fall
as previously announced, but will be deliv-
cred some time next spring. In the mean
time the Hoe Company will forward per-
fecting press that Will strike off 10000 eight
page papers per hour, which will be used to
print the large edition to be sent ont early in
January. The two new boilers, each of fifty
five horse power, are expected daily and
when received will be set up in the new
power house. The company now has 900
gross of bottles on hand, but expect several
car loads of the 100000 order sent to the
factory some time ago The advertising ter
rltorv will be increased, and next season the
company will tNpend over S15O,O0O in alver-
Using. They will cover the whole of New
England. all of New York State except New
York city and Brooklyn, all of PENNSYLVANIA
except Philadelphia. About December 1irst
active preparations will be made. and the
manufacturing crew put on. Contracts with
newspapers for next year are being made.
Mr.. Hanson, the manager, is assisted by IA
new man, Mr.. Banks, of New York, who ar
rived last week. A car load of medicine was
shipped to Vermont last week and is having
a good fall sale. The company will ship to
Boston to-day $500 cases of medicine forty
five tons in weight
The Skoda Discovery Company has begun
printing paper called the Mariners Com
pass, to be circulated in the interest of their
medicines. The first edition of three hum
dred thousand copies will be printed in Ban
gor. Up to this time the Skotla Company
has advertised only in newspapers, hut will
use the Compass in the same manner as the
Dana Company circuates its papers The
company will have two mailings, the first to
take place early i'll January. The medicines
are having a steady sale
A new sarsaparlla company, the Leon.
is about to be organized in Belfast The
gentlemen interested are VIM. B. Swan.
John II. Quimby, Howes & Co., R. H.
Cooml,>, II. l.. Woodcock. j. E. Woodcock
and f. E. Bradbury, of Belfast: John NJ
kilgore and others, in Lowell, Mass. and
three from Boston. Tile capital will be
placed at $4,000, with shares at 800 each,
A large amount of the stock has already
been sold and it meets with ready sale
The medicine has been on the market some
time and has achieved something of a repu-
tatlon. 1t will he manufactured in Belfast,
and the sale pushed with vigor. The on
ganizatiun will take place in about one
week.
Belfast is fast becoming "a patent medicine
centre. There are rUmors in the air concern
ing other ventures of the kind, which will
be announced later