Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-08

gnsta. eoah"tol's"i
representing an Investment Of s2n,1si;
employing 100 men and pas'ng out annual
| ~ for labor alone over 81 500. This hiii
| j. aow turning out, Of ground-~ooi pulp
| alone, 2Iisl tons q year; Of sniphite paip,
| 5000 tons, and of finished MANILA paper AZ
the rate Of 2tGJ tons, making an annual
( product Of the approximate Falhe 81 si3.-
$50. An additional paper machine viii De
| but in immediately which y i'll double the
paper product Of the mill.
Close BY. where nothing existed ten years
| ago il the window frame factory OF Bang.
| Brothers. wi;h plant experimenting $50
| go: employing ~ men, paying out IN
wages alone SIS 900 year. snd yielding u
1 finished product OF $4,000 annual value.
some of which is exported 10 Eagianf and
even TO Africa.
| TN the same side of the river il the ex-
tensige saw mill Of the Augusta Lumber
| Co. repre- sen,ing plant of about slOp,GD
employing 100 men, and paying out 500 I'M
annually in wages. with finished product
whose value aggregates sl50,Uou annn-
! aiiy. anil considerable part OF
the proluctiyescapital of this mill also has
been added within the past ten years.
The publishing business of Augusta has
grown 10 marvellous proportions within the
ten years mentioned. The establishment
of the public spirited and iamenird MI
! Allen represents AN investment of hundreds
| of The u lands of dallars, gives employment
/ tn 100 operative with a pay roll of nearly
| s7j .Opo annually, and total product of a
million dollars and upward. Tissues news
| papers and periodicals. with an aggregate
| circulation of over 100000 copies every
month or 10000 900 per year. This es-
adjustment existed substantially ten years
| ago but has received considerable renewals
within the ten years.
| The rapidly growing publishing business
of Messrs vickery & Hill now represents
plant of about So 900, and is practically
new within the last ten years. 1t issues
monthly about a million and quarter OF
new papers and periodicals. or about h.
900 900, copies annually, employs 100 OPP
eratives, and its annual pay roll approx
! mates $50 900.
On the East Side of the river. the Gannett
/ Publishing Co. has plant of $50 900, and its
one publication has a circulation of 100000
copies monthly, or over II, 900 900 annually.
. Ii employs 100 operatives, and pays out an
nually in wages 1886 900. The whole of
tIis BUSINESS HIS bttti titNtiulth Nithih
years. and is new proof Of the enterprise
I of Augusta's citizens.
Ten years ago the citizens of Augusta
were practically unsupplied with any per
manent water or fire system To-day good
water at reasonable rates Is furnished for
all purposes of fire and domestic supply.
and an investment aggregating upwards of
$3.50, 900 has been added TO the value of
the city's property. Ten years ago electric
lighting was a thing unknown in Augusta,
but today its streets are illuminated by
night by the extensive system of the kenne-
bee Light 4 Heat Co, whose plant repre-
sents about $50 900 of invested capital, all
of which has been added to the city within
the past five or six years. These last two
( companies alone are disbursing wages
among the laboring men of the community
on an average of about $4,000 annually.
Three years ago it would have been
thought an impossbility to traverse the
steep hills between Augusta, llalloweii and
/ Gardiner by an electric railroad, but today
( Augusta has established herself as a pioneer
in electric enterprise, AMI a thoroughly
equipped line of electric cars makes halt
hourly trips each way between the three
cities bringing them all more closely to-
! gether, to the advantage of their mutual
trade This investment alone represents
Sl15. 900 more of capital in use for the
cIty's development, and $1,000 year ex-
pended In wages alone.
Ten wears ago YOU might walk through
the entire business street of Augusta with
out finding a window of plate glass but
today it is q common addition to the attrac-
tons of Augusta shops.
lFlve years ago Augusta had nc paved
streets but now the entire business portion
of the city is conveniently and finely paved,
and costly piece of macadamized road Is
now being added
In place of the old wooden bridge across
the kennebce river, which still existed three
wears ago, rise the piers and spans of a
beautiful bridge of iron. costing some $50
900, while Just above it is the fine iron rail-
road bridge of the Maine Central Railroad,
also new within ten years.
The growth of Augusta is strikingly indi-
Gated in other ways in the appearance of
her business streets. While ten years ago
wooden stores alternated thickly with the
brick the wood has since fast given place
TO substantial brick and stone, and even
within five years past something like four
teen different blocks have been added to
the business part of the city, representing Il
probable expenditure of one hundred and
fifty or two hundred thousand dollars, and
materially enhancing the solid appearance
of our streets.
But the building growth of Augusta has
not been confined to it's places of business.
Within five years, even. some 400 new
dwellings have been added to the taxable
property of the city, and in the five years
before it is probable that $50 other new
buildings were built. making an aggregate
of 700 buildings within the decade, and an
approximate addition of s1oo.otn in taxa
Bile property to the city. Something like
fifty buildings, together with one manufact-
airing plant have been erected within the
pas, six years in one little section of Au
gusta, known as Stapleton, where the enter
prise aud spirit of Col. Staples has made
fifty blades of grass to thus grow where
none grew before. By these buildings alone
some $50 900 has been added to the resi-
lence property of Augusta, and under the
stimulus of the electric railway the property
all along its line has advanced in value, and
beautiful residences are fast stretching
along the whole highway between Augusta
and Gardiner.
At the opposite end of the city, towards
Cushnoc Heights, scores of new tenement
houses, and three spacious factory boarding
houses. have been built by the Edwards Co.
and our French citizens are enjoying new
Roman Catholic church and beautiful
school house. All this new building has
been wonderfully stimulated by the Augusta
Loan & Building Association, which today
represents an aggregate investment of near
/ ly $500, 900. all new within ten years
The new and beautiful Opera House
built by Mr.. Haynes, was only opened dur
ing this current MONTH and in the graceful
ness and elegance of its architecture and
finish it easily ranks as one of the most
tasteful in New England.
The aggregate national banking capital of