Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-24
Maine Industrial Matters.

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Maine Industrial Matters.
About 1000 car loads of granite will b.
shipped from Bucksport to Bangor to bt
| used on the water works dam.
The Piscataquis Wooden Co.'s mill al
Guilford is being run over time on ac.
count of increase in orders. ,-
H. B. Rackliffe. stock buyer of Corinna
is now Strengthening from 200 to 800 sheer
daily and the meat is being shipped tc
Boston.
At the Squaw Mountain lumber camps
of NJ G. Shaw & Sons. operations were
commenced some two weeks ago and a
good deal of logging will have been done
by the time that winter opens.
Messrs. Parsons and Blanchard of Mars
Hill. will build a steam shingle mill near
st. Croix station on the Ashland branch
of the B. & A. They report cedar in that
locality as fine for their trade.
The crew at Sargent's saw MILL South
Brewer made quite record for saving
lumber recently. In eleven and a half
hours work they sawed up eight hundred
and twenty logs. making ninety-two
thousand feet of manufactured lumber.
Business is booming at the wooleh mill
and shoe factory in Wilton. There is to
be an addition put on the wooden mill to
make room for more looms and a new
wheel has been put in the shop to give
more power.
The Georges River Mills. Warren. are
enjoying season of unusual prosperity
insure plenty of work until next March
This necessitates the refusal of orders
daily. About 100 hands are employed
Isaac A. Terrill of Bangor. has started
numbering operations in the West Branch
region. He will have four camps on eau
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Loon lakes and will have about $50 men
in them. He expects to cut 1000, 600 feet
of logs.
The BURBERRY factory of H. NJ. Leigh
ton at Columbia Falls, is still running.
but will close this week. The pack has
been light but some excellent berries
have been canned which will not fail
to bring good price in the market.
The first to begin the seasons log
ging operations on the Machias river.
is the veteran lumberman, General
Grant of Cherryfleld, who has left with
crew for Township So where he has
100000 of felled hemlock to yard on the
Porter block
The fish business has been carried on
at Milbridge quite extensively this sea-
son. Cod and haddock have been quite
plentiful in the bay. and men who could
not find employment in other vocations
have been able to make livelihood at
fishing. Last spring Capt. Henry Leigh
ton and Alonzo Small built them q fishing
craft and have been very successful in
their new enterprise all summer
Thatcher & Barker of Old Town COM
menced. Tuesday, running the Milford
mills by night. in order to finish their
saving before ii gets too cold weather.
Nearly all of the mills in the vicinity
are being run at full blast giving en-
Dloyment to large number of men.
Very few loafers are seen on the streets
this fall.
The new tannery which has been
built at Brewer, by Mr.. Cary on the lot
of the plant burned early in the sum
mer will soon be running. The new
buildings have been put up in as sub
stantial a manner as brick and wood
will make them and the rooms fitted
with the latest and modern machinery
for making leather
The work upon the foundations for
the new ward at the Eastern Maine
General hospital Bangor, is about to
commence. and will be pushed as rap
idly as possible until the basement is
ready for the erection of the main
structure. Work will then be suspend
ed until early spring. when the ward
will be finished without delay.
AT Beddington. since the tannery of E.
e. Church was burned the people now are
obliged to depend upon farming and ,lum-
bering. while many make a living from
the sporting men who visit that section
during the trouting and hunting seasons
by acting as guides and keeping public
houses. But as for business there the
burning of the large tannery last year
ended everything. and it is very doubtful
if another tannery will ever be built
E. N. Slower & Son of Jonesboro
have been running their mill all sum-
mer and kept large gang of men en-
ployed.' They have sawed about $780,
600 feet of lumber, mostly slaves and
headings. The manufacture of short
lumber brings the best returns to mill
owners on these small rivers. while
long lumber cannot be sawed at 4
profit here at present, except by experts
in the lumber business.
The Blaine correspondent of the Pres
que Isle Star Herald, notes with pleasure
the improvements that are taking place
at Mars Hill. Two new churches. Metho-
uSt ana baptist. are being erected. A
new bridge has been built across the
Pressure Isle stream, to replace the old
one, and sidewalks have been connected
with our own and extending to the b. &
A. depot. Frank Keay has built an addi-
ton to his house. c.. n. York is building
a residence. Attorney Stafford has pur-
chased lot and is making preparations
to build modern residence next summer
Babson & Co., of Foxcroft, will handle
about the same amount of pulpwood this
year as last, according to present irdi-
cations. The spruce market is as yet I'M
certain. There is little demand for the
wood at this time of year. About the
first of November. better idea can be
obtained. With poplar it is different. Or
ders must be received in the spring so
that the stock can be cut at a time when
the trees are in the saliva and the bark
can be easily removed. Messrs Babson
< Co. handled about 1000 cords of poplar
and between 1000 and 1900 cords of spruce
last winter. Nearly all of this amount
was procured on the line of the B. & A.
and much of it was hauled to Foxcroft
by different parties, living within radius
of 10 or u miles.
There are only four wooden vessels
in New England this season. and