Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-20
In Busy Maine.

Thirty thousand cans is the biggest
days work at the Auburn corn factory
thus far.
The Bangor Edge Tool Company made
a shipment of about 400 cant dogs 10 Port-
land, Oregon. on "Wednesday.
Workmen have commenced the founda-
ton for the 60 foot addition to the tooth
pick mill at Dixfield. This will give near
ly double the present capacity.
During the three years since the article
was patented. Mr.. Leander Staples of
Monroe has sold Il, 900 halters, which, it
is claimed. no horse can slip off
Wednesday morning, a crew of 1Oo
woodsmen was taken from Bangor to
Greenvile and from there dispatched to
the different concerns for whom they
had been hired for the winter.
The ninth steam mill drive is now being
received at the Bangor BOOM So far this
season 10000, 900 feet of logs have been
RATED at the boom. Two more drives are
expected and the total will probably
reach 100000 for the season.
The spool mills at Dixfield are both
rushed with orders John S. Harlows
crew is working considerable over t1me
and G. L. Merrill & Co. are working a
night and day crew, about forty men in
all. John Harlow will put in about 5000
cords of white birch this winter
the Androscoggin Pulp Company.
Brunswick. have received four RATS of
logs, which include over 5000 feet of
lumber and S. Il. Brown $1,000 feet, from
Lawrence Bros. Gardiner. Leonard AL
exander is doing good work in the trans
portation of them by water. large raft
arrived Tuesday for Brown.
The business of the Vinalhaven Fish
Company is booming, in fact, the COM
pany is enjoying the best season in its
history. There are now twenty-five men
employed and they are kept busy six days
in the week taking care of the large
quantities of fish brought in by the many
fishermen along the rocky shores of the
myriad islands. This company packs all
kinds of salt water fish for which a
ready market is found in Philadelphia
New York and Boston.
Joseph Black of Vinalhaven, is working
his new quarry at Dark Brook, near the
Neck. He has a crew at work getting
out stone for the foundation of the Ca
thedral of St. John the Divine to be
erected in New York. When completed
this structure will be one of the hand
soonest church edtices in the world. Mr.
Black has also shipped large lot of
stone for the Holyoke, Mass. dam This
quarry seems to have an ineXhauStible
supply of extra good stone. 1t has an eX-
cellent water privilege and the quarry can
be worked at a comparatively low cost.
The Bodwell Granite Company, Vinal-
haven. now have about $50 cutters at
work and about 100 quarrymen. The
number of quarrymen is small for most
of the men are employed on the Jones'
boro granite being used on the Buffalo
postottice. This postoffice is to be an i'm
mense structure and there will be work
for the stone cutters for another year at
least. About 100000 feet of stone will be
used This company also has the con-
tract to furnish the basement and en-
trance stone for the new sixteen story
hotel being built by w. r. H. Martin. 3Sd
street, New York. The stone will be
quarred in Jonesboro. Another contract
is for the addition to the Puck building,
New York this company furnishing the
stone for the first story. The material
will be highly polished granite. Another
building in which this company is inter-
eSted is the Empire postoffice building be-
ing erected by the O. B. Potter trust. The
superstructure will be of Hallowell and
Mt. Waldo granite. while the BOdwell
Granite Company will furnish the stone
for the basement and first story. The
building will be 200 feet long, 70 feet wide
and 20 stories in height. The paving bust
ness is dull and there are but few men
stones are piled up in the yard waiting
for shipment. When the Greater York
bill passed and it was decided that
New York would assume all Indebtedness
the smaller communities Immediately
contracted for paving blocks, amounting
to considerably over a million. and the
blocks were to be quarried at Vnalhaven.
But New York said no and thus the gran
lite workers witnessed big boom go up in
smoke as the contracts were all can
cclled. In addition to the crew at Vinal-
haven the company has about 50 men at
work at Spruce Head and rs at JonesbOro.
In the spring it is expected that there will
be a rush of orders.