Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-06
Maine Industrial News.

The Warren shoe shop is making 1906
pairs daily.
1t is reported that Rumford Falls will
soon have another mill In operation.
That contract for 100000 paving blocks
is encouraging for the Franklin cutters.
Saco is to have new industry. corn
factory, which will be started this month.
The Brown Mfg. Co. Dover. is doing n
good business, having shipped more goods
last week than any other week for quite
a while.
Messrs. James and Fred Heal of Lin
colnvilie have recently been in Searsmont
~ work III quarry and kilns of O. b.
ruler. The kilns were set afire and as
result large quantity of lime was
made.
The Maine Red Granite Company Red
Beach, have secured the contract for a
large amount Of rough granite to be used
in q public building in New York This
VIII require the employment of more men
IN the quarries and naturally make things
boom.
Ii mas been long time since the spool
factory at Dover has seen the amount
OF business which it is now enjoying
Large orders are being received constant
~ ana good prices paid, with money easy
rms factory now employs 20 men but
Will double that number as business in
creases.
A letter received in Belfast from a lead
ing iime commission broker in New York
city, stating that some machinery has
been shipped to Belfast for the lime kilns
at North Islcsboro, satisfies the Belfast
journal that that will be revival of the
hme-burning industry at Islesboro at an
early date.
"A new kind of gangplank has been in
vented by a Portland concern on which
the stevedores take their places with
their trucks of freight and are carried by
electric power from the wharf to the YES
sci and vice versa. The plank is some
thing after the fashion of the floor in a
threshing machine horse power and is
lifted particularly for unloading and load
ing ut wharves whore very high tides
make work with the ordinary gangplank
very difficult.
The Bath Iron Works is to do away en-
tirely with steam for power to run IT'S
machinery in all the departments and
during the next month the necessary mo-
tors will be placed in position to furnish
sufnc1ent electricity to perform the work
Al present there are six motors in opera
ton. 1t will require five more to give the
required amount of power to run every-
thing by electricity. 1t will be furnished
by the Bath Electric Company All the
power at the Hyde Windlass Company is
electricity.
The brick making season in Brewer this
year will be very short Owing to the
wet weather the brick manufacturers
We're very late in starting their yards, but
it is just as well. as the orders for the
summer have not been such as to encour-
age the manufacturers and the output
will fill all orders and the usual amount.
If not more than the usual number will
probably be wintered. unless there is an
unlocked for demand late this fall In
most cases the manufacturers are either
now burning or making their last kiln for
the season VIM. Burke and Sam'l Hol-
yoke put in fires this week to their last
kilns and Hugh OBrien and A. III. Gould
are putting up their last kilns and will
finish striking in about two weeks or
less.
On the train the other day, says a writ
err in the Industrial Journal. | met Capt
Horace H. Shaw. one of Names most
prominent shoe manufacturers, and lis