The Portland daily press., 1895-12-31
AT RUMFORD FALLS.
Continuation Of the Wonderful Growth
and Development.
IN 1895 $1,000, 900 SPENT In NEW
BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

In View of These Marvellous Results, 1t
Would Seem that the Founder and Pro
moter of Rumford Falls, Mr.. Hugh j.
Chisholm, Must Feel that His Efforts
suits, Only Accomplished by Men of
Great Foresight and NIarkedBusiness
Ability.
The past year has been one of general
prosperity for Rumford Falls AT no
time in it's history since the first year,
have SO many Improvements been notice
able as during the last twelve months
In that time the Sulphite mill has been
completed from its foundation, and
equi pped with machinery that will turn
out from forty to fifty tons of sulphite
pulp per day. The Methodist Episcopal
church has been furnished and the Uni
versalist church completed and furnished.
One new school house, two stories high,
has been built. Three brick blocks have
been completed and a fourth is up and
being rooted in.
Mr.. John E. Stephens, after having
his store burned last spring, Immediately
made arrangements to build brick
block 25x75 feet and four stories high.
This has been built and is now occupied.
The Rumford Falls Trust Company
built brick building expressly for their
banking business, which they are now
occupying. This bank, although open
ed less than year ago. has very satis-
factory business, with at present over 400
depositors and deposits running in the
vicinity Of 100000 This bank Is fur
nished with asafetyi vault with the most
modern time locks.
Mr. Chalres j. Cheney of Sabbath Day.
Lake, Poland, Me-, has built four story
brick block that is 46xS0 feet.
A. q. Gates, one of our successful
druggists, is building the fourth brick
structure, which is 40x75 feet and four
stories high. 1t is opposite the Odd Eel
lows block on the corner of Hartford and
Congress streets.
THE POWER COMPANY
has built the new suspension bridge
across Knapp Falls which is 40 foet long.
They have also graded street to it from
the foot of Congress street and have done
other street grading. They have also
made quite extensive Improvements and
additions to the masonry work Of the
lower dam head gates and retaining
walls, increasing the size of the head gate
walls so that now they are formed of
solid masonry eighteen feet thick and
eighteen feet high above the top of the
dam. This will give absolute protection
against any freshet that can possibly oc-
cur on the river.
THE WATER COMPANY
has laid three and one-half miles of wa
ter main and one mile of sewer pipe.
They have built stand pipe thirty feet
in diameter and forty feet high filter
house and a pumping station. The latter
of brick two stories high.
One of the greatest conveniences is the
telephone exchange in town with forty
subscribers; also connected with the OUT
side world by long distance service.
The POR1LANDe & hUMfORO
FALLS RAILWAY
has built brick freight station $50 feet
long near the woolen mill, and a brick
addition of four stalls has been made to
the round house, making eight stalls in
ALL A brick store house. 20x44 feet for
oil and waste has been built apart from
the other buildings A new brick black
smith shop 24x3O feet and new track
scale of large capacity have been added
to the equipment of the railroad here.
Additional sidings have also been laid
making over five miles of tracks in the
freight yard, besides making important
Improvements at other points along Its
line. The repair shops of the railroads
will be located at Rumford Falls next
year, and will give employment to a
small force of skilled workmen.
THE RUMFORD FALLS s. RANGE
LEY LAKES RAILROAD,
as far as Houghton in Byron, has been
completed and is now in operation. Two
branches, viz: the Houghton branch,
four miles, and the East branch, eight
miles in length. have been completed for
the logging business, and train load after
train lead of logs is being hauled daily
into Rumford Falls. The additional ten
miles of the main line from Houghton
to the terminus at Mooselucmaguntic
Lake, the largest in the Rangeley chain,
is nearly completed.
SULPHITE MILLS.
I
Ihe Rumicrd Falls Sulphite Go. mill
is in operation, and is one of the largest
and best built and equipped mills in the
United States, no expence having been
spared in constructing it in the most
thorough manner, in all it's details, in
order to make the finest grade of Eroduct