Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-11
INCREASE
In Construction of Manufactures In
the State for 1895.
Returns on Costs and Number Of Mill
Hands Employed.

The returns on building and new build
ings In the State, for the past year, have
all been sent in to Labor Commissioner S.
W. Matthews, and have been compiled.
The figures are in answer to the following
inquiries: How many and what kind
of factories, mills or shops tor manufac
turing purposes, have been enlarged, COM
pleted or are in process of erection during
1882 g Estimated cost of same, and the
number of hands employed?''
In all, rs cities, towns and plantations
report building in this line.
In kennebec county. Albion reports one
tannery, employing five men, with repairs
at cost of $500; Hallowell reports one
shoe factory, employing 500 men, with en-
Engagements made at "A cost of S11,500
Rome has one new lumber mill costing
$500 and employing four men; Vassalboro
has enlarged its wooden mill at cost of
$4,000, and Winthrop has remodelled a
butter creamery at cost of $780, employ
ing two men.
The totals of returns from the mills,
which have been enlarged, completed, or
are in process of erection during 1895, in
the other counties, are as follows
In Androscoggin, two towns report six
buildings at a cost of 1896, 900, EMPLOY ing
1853 hands; Aroostook has II towns
which report IS buildings at a cost of
$50, 600, and employing 206 hands; Cum
bcrlaud has five towns which report five
buildings ct a cost of $35, 500, employing
156 hands; Franklin has four towns report
ing seven buildings, at cost of S152, $50,
employing 1870 hands; Hancock has four
towns reporting four buildings, costing
$14, 900 and employing 1865 hands; Kenne-
bee has five towns reporting five buildings,
costing ST, 700, and employing 81 hands;
Knox has two towns reporting three
buildings, costing SIG, 500 and employing
81 hands; Lincoln has four towns report
ing five buildings at cost of S33 500, and
employing 1874 hands
In Oxford county five towns report
eight buildings, costing 1912, 900 and EN-
ploying 172 hands; in Penobscot, seven
towns report hit buildings, costing $780,
$50 and employing 273 hands; in Piscata-
quis, five towns report eight buildings,
costing $50, 500 and employing rs hands;
i,,G h1o hill
ing, costing $4,000 and employing 25 hands;
in Somerset, seven towns report eight
buildings at cost of S120,700 employing
1928 hands; in Waldo, four towns report
five buildings, costing Sl4,0 and en-
ploying 81 hands; in Washington, six
towns report seven buildings, costing
S23, 600 and employing As hands; IN York
county, three towns report four buildings,
costing $l7, 200 and employing 26 hands.
The totals of the IS counties show rs
towns with 102 buildings, at cost of ST.
1868, 500, and employing 2797 hands
The totals for the years 1891 to 1894 in
elusive, show as follows: For 1891 Sc
towns, 40 buildings at a cost of 80, 023,
$50, employing 427S hands; for 1899, 80
towns, ia buildings, SO, 12S, 600, employ
ing 1912 hands; for 1898. 81 towns, los
buildings, sS41, 725 and employing 1926
hands; for 1894, As towns, 55 buildings,
costing 1868, ZOO, and employing 1899
hands.
1t will be seen from this that the total
costs and hands employed for 1895 show
considerable increase over 1898 and 1894.