The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-11-11
Concerning Local Industries.

Harrison Wood x Co. recently made
very handsome granite double tablet for
the parents of A. S. Heal, member of the
firm.
Fred j. Stephenson and A. T. Crosby,
from the Belfast Machine & Foundry Co.,
went to Isesboro Nov. Sth to set up the new
machinery at Browns lime kiln.
A. S. Pendleton of Unity is adding COM
bination board planer and moulder to his
machinery, and intends to put in other
woodworking machines soon. His princi-
pal business is cutting spool wood. but he is
gradually adding general light mill work.
He also has run of stones for grinding
grain
A local syndicate has offered to take the
plant, medicine on hand, etc, of the Dal-
ton Sarsaparilla Co., and pay stock holders
$3.50 per share amounting to between
$4,000 at 81 900. The acceptance of this offer
is optional with individual stockholders.
Those who do not wish to sell their stock
at this price can retain it under the new Or
ganizaton. If the offer is generally accept
ed the business will be continued by a new
company
The creamery recently established here is
receiving quite an amount of cream, some of
it from outside the county, and the business
must increase when it becomes generally
known that cash may be obtained for cream
in Belfast. The cream is mainly shipped to
Boston, but last week some butter was made.
The price paid for cream is 20 cents per
pound for the butter fat as shown by the
Baboock test and 20 cents per can for milk
There are now 25 patrons of the creamery
and the number is increasing daily.
The Crystal Spring Creamery in Unity be-
gan Nov. 4th receiving milk once in two days
instead Of every day, and will continue so
until April lst, when daily churnings will
be resumed The creamery receives an
average of 5000 pounds of milk per day
and has an output of 40 pounds of butter
daily. The farmers are paid is cts. per
pound for the butter fat in the milk as shown
by the Babcock test The summer market
is partly in Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor and
other summer resorts, but there is an all-the-
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Lynn and other Massachusetts cities.
Friday, Nov. 5th was farmers pay day
at the Portland Packing Co.'S corn canning
factory in Unity, and a tritie over SIS ,00C
was put in circulation on that day. The
company signed for 200 acres to be planted
but the unfavorable season made the crop
somewhat short of the average. The farm
ers, however, netted about $40 cash at the
factory for each acre devoted to this crop, in
addition to having the corn fodder left for
use at home. The corn was nearly all raised
within a radius of miles of Unity village
The pay roll of help in the factory for the
season amounted to over $1,000. The out
put of this factory this year is about $780,
900 cans, and will all be shipped before the
Goth of this month. About dozen brands
of fancy corn are put up here, the latest
speciality being the "carton brand" the
cans of which are put up in fancy card
board cartons. The corn is marketed most
ly in the South and West special brands
being put up for jobbers in Missouri, West
Virginia, Texas, Minnesota and other
States. The Portland Packing Co. own
and operate II corn factories and 40 lob
ster factories. W. II. Rolfe, who has charge
here, also operates a lobster factory on
Prince Edwards Island during the early
summer. In winter he lives in Unity and
makes up the cans for the next seasons
business. The factory is great help to the
farms and farmers of Unity and vicinity