Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-11
Maine Industrial News.

A $4,000 cottage is being built at Cas-
tine for Miss Baldwin of Philadelphia.
Five hundred cords of wood have been
cut and yarded in the vicinity of Mt. APP
attic. Auburn.
1t is said that by the first Of next spring
the erection of eight new houses will be
begun at Highland park Biddeford.
G.. w. Stacy of Blanchard. is having
eight or ten hundred cords of white birch
cut to be sawed into spool bars. stephen
Patten will cut 500 cords.
1t is stated that the International
Company have a contract to convey to
Eastport twelve hundred tons Of rails to
he used on this end of the railroad.
John a. Wheeler has bought the stump
age on 125 acres of land belonging to
Hon. Waldo Pettengill at Rumford. He
will haul about 400 cords of pulp wood to
the railroad and about much cord
wood.
Frank Ward of North Sebago. has TAX
en- a logging job of c. II. Young to put in
about 100000 feet of pine from his lots
lately purchased of II. c. Dawes. Timber
stands on the west side of the county
road near South Bridgton. and is to be
put into the head of Muddy river bog.
Mr.. Ward has commenced building his
camps.
A crew of forty woodsmen will work on
the Revolutionary township. recently
others. Ferguson & Son. who have OPP
Grated for many years along the upper
Androscoggin, will have charge. The
crew will occupy Totman's old camp near
Brassau stream and it is estimated will
cut 1000. 900 this winter .r+
J. A. Thurston, for long time in bust
ness at Newry Corner. is erecting large
store near Bethel village. Mr. Thurston
has built a mill at Swans Corner in
Bethel where he manufactures from 800
to 1000 cords of birch. etc, per year. He
will move from Newry to his place in
Bethel and expects to open his new store
about Jan. l. rt
Amos FitZ of the Fitz Brothers Last
Company of Auburn, was in Bingham re-
Gently. making arrangements for next
seasons last block business. Chas. Colby
is to buy hundred thousand maple to be
hauled to the factory. and Albert Web
ster will buy two hundred and fifty
thousand to be landed on the bank of the
river and RATED for spring. The factory
Will start up as soon as enough lumber
has been hauled to insure continuous run
ming of the machinery. 1t will give en-
ployment to about twenty men.
The Nallet Toothpick Company of Me-
chanic Falls. have recently moved into
larger quarters and now put in two new
veneer machines and increased the dry
ing capacity five fold. Carriers will be
put in to take all the waste from the
the boiler room without touching it by
hand. thus saving lots of work and eX-
pense of hauling 1t as formerly. They ex-
pect in a short time to be turning out
picks at the rate of 100 cases day which
the manager assures the Mechanic Falls
Ledger, they can find ready market
for.
The new building recently erected by
the John p. Lowell Company at South
Portland, is completed and the work of
moving In has commenced. The offices of
the company are in the new building.
The work is progressing rapidly on get
ting out patterns and tools for the man.
ufacture of firearms. police goods. ETC..
which this concern is to handle and In a
short time the machinery will be placed
in the new factory for their manufacture.
The lower floor of the new building will
be used as an assembling room for BIZ
cycles. A part of this floor will also be
fitted up as an enamellng room. The up
per floor will be devoted to the manufac-
ture of revolverS. A new nickel plating
room will also be added to the building.
The old offices of the company are now
used entirely rs n drafting room and are