Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-08-20

Next day the men told the story, and
neighbor missed his pig. 1t is said tha;
the pig had habit of wading about in
the water near the shore. and that on
this occasion. after being hit with the
brick probably rolled off into deep
water and was drowned.
Sagadahoc farmers did quite a busi-
ness, during the blueberry season ship
ping the berries TO distant markets.
Geo. Berry of PhiDsburg. has been
shipping up river to Gardiner and Au-
gusta. One would suppose that our
Kennebec county towns ought to pro-
duce all the blueherries they require,
says the Bath Enterprise, but Mr..
Berry has been shipping there right
along of late and the returns have been
satisfactory. Early in the season he
shipped to Doston, but he found that
the Boston market was three or four
cents below Gardiner and Augusta. In
all he shipped nearly 1000 quarts, all
picked in the town of Phipsburg. This
probably represents but small portion
of the crop that has been harvested in
Phipsburg, as there are other parties
who ship them. Other towns in the
county also contribute in supplying
the demand for blueberries. and in the
aggregate they yield revenue of
number of thousand dollars.
Prof. f. L. Harvey of the University
of Maine, in letter which the Kineo
Echo publishes, says that though he
has never made special study of the
Mt. kineo rock, he calls it blue horn
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crystals of feldspar. in it. If it contains
such crystals then it would properly be
called quartz porphyry. On the west
shore, just opposite Kineo, is a low
hill composed of the same rock. Horn
stone is not confined to these eleva-
tions, but is a common rock in other
localities outside of Maine. HOrnblende
is dark cOlOred rock, brittle in char
acter and in physical and chemical
characters nothing like hornstone,
which is a variety of quartz. The
Kineo rock is an intrusive, that is, a
rock forced up in a plastic condition
through other formations. 1t probably
owes it's eminence to the fact that
hornstone is not easily weathered and
has resisted the eroding action OF
the water and atmosphere of
the ages better than the adjacent
formations, leaving Mt. Kineo a con-
spicuous feature of the landscape.
In the matter of mineral wealth,
Maine isn't so awfully slow, says the
Bangor Commercial. We venture to
say that the average reader has no
idea of the number of towns in which
there are mines that have been assaye6
to show good value. For instance,
there is the Acton mine. 1197 penny
weights to the ton of ore; Bluehill, 20
p. W.; Corinna, 20 p. W.; Cherryfield. |
17.49 p. W.; Deer Isle, 29.11 p. W.; Hamp-
den, 14.57 p. W.; Hancock, 1850 D. W..
Lubec. 20 p. W.; Lowell, 14.6O p. w.;
Pittston, 6.30 p. W.; Sullivan, 13 D. w.
Sedgwick, 1905 p. W.; Wakefield, 14.40: |
Wales, $6 to ton; Litchfield, as high as |
&!5 ton; Auburn. SIS. Bryant's pond. !
Phillips, Freeman and several other
places show good outlook, some If |
these ores containing large percentage
OF silver, ore in Sullivan assaying as |
high as 7.37O.35 ounces Of silver TO the
ton. For years it has been known tha. |
gold exists in the northwestern part of |
the State. Hunters and men engaged |
in numbering have brought to the city. |
samples of gold dust and nuggets from
the vicinity of Rangeley lakes. One
hunter has for years In his semi i-annual
visits to Portland carried in from one
to four ounces of clear gold gathered
from the stream running into Rangeley
lake. Quartz has also been found there
containing free gold, showing without
doubt, that rich veins of gold are To-
Gated near, and undoubtedly the veins
are located in the hills west of the
Rangeley chain and extending to
Moosehead lake.d The gold that isl