The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-09
PORTLAND. MAINE. MONDAY MoRN1n
81, ,12s, 900, giving employment to 4,312
hands. In Cumberland county S26O,S0O
was spent and 572 hands employed.
Corn Factories.


The report will also contain statistics
of corn factories from GA of which full
returns have been received, eight others
making partial returns. These show
number of men employed 400, number
ofawomen 2165, number. of bows 637,
girls 489, total number employed S000
The average wages of men was $1.55,
women .87, boys rs, girls .55. Number
of acres of corn for Ga factories, 9312.
Number of cans packed in u factories,
Il, ,526, OPS; average length of time factor
les were at work during year, 204 days.
Total value of Ga plants, S379, 100; 81 fac
tories paid 80 for 100 pounds of corn; 5
factories paid $1.85 for 100 pounds; fac
tory paid $1.75 and one paid 1925.
Concerning the sportsmen's Paradise.
The Fish and Game Commission, in
its annual report, deplores the driving OF
the salmon from the Kennebec, Andros-
coggin and Penobscot rivers by the
manufacturing operations carried on
there which threaten the extinction of
the fish. The commissioners are work
ing hard to keep up the stock in the few
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locked salmon thrive well in most of the
ponds (which have been stocked with
them and attain great size. The eggs
for breeding purposes are secured in
Sebago lake, which contains the finest
and largest specimens Of the fish in the
world.
The laws for the protection of big
game have been so successful that the
results have exceeded the will est expec-
tation. To punish a class of wealthy
men who are willing to violate the law
by shooting all the big game which
comes along and paying their fines when
caught, term of Imprisonment is part
of the penalty. The wonderful increase
of deer and caribou is ascribed to tie
suppression of the custom of deer 'dog-
ging.' Deer have become so tame that
they enter the pastures of the farmers
although railroad building in the north
ern part of the state has driven them
from their usual haunts.
The introduction of the jack rabbit of
the western plains and the black cock Of
Europe is considered feasible and desira-
Bile.
Islands That Are Lost.
State Land Agent Oak, in his annual
report, says that inquiries are received at
his Office daily with reference to the til
ties of small islands situated along our
coast and in the large lakes and ponds of
the state.
He has prepared list of all the ISL
ands which have been conveyed by the
state, including those conveyed by Mas
sachusetts before Maine became state.
They number about 500. The general
opinion seems to be that the islands not
included in the list are still the property
of the state, although in many instances
there are pretended owners, basing their
claim upon the fact that members of
their family have claimed them for many
years.
In some instances where improve
ments have been made and the land act-
ually occupied, perhaps these claims
should be recognized to a certain extent,
ut where there has been no actual occu-
pancy and no improvement made the
land agent fails to see how any valid
claim against the state can be set up.
In many townships there is no record
of the location whatever, and many of
the poor plantations are losing the bene-
fits of the ''stumpage" of such lots.
which should go the support of their
schools, as the law provides.