Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-25
Maine Industrial I News.

started in Sanford.
Purinton & Pratt of Fairfield, HAYS
taken contract to make $1,000 settees
A car load of paint brush handles
have been sawed this week at ]. w
Benefits mill in Gilead.
Seventy thousand shingles will b.
used in covering the roof Of the new
net factory at Vinalhaven.
Over one hundred sheepskins are be
ing finished daily at Hersom's sheer
skin factory at North Berwick.
Chas. p. Nickels Of Cherryfeld, in hi.
numbering operations this winter, will
employee hands and 10 horses on town.
ship 16 and II.
Frank Bradbury Of West Franklin
will set derrick in the west quarry
where he will quarry curb crossings
and paving stock.
Capt. j. G. Gay of Milbridge, wis
has II cutters employed in his paving
quarry, contemplates working an addi-
tional force as the season advances.
Large shipments Of feldspar are be-
ing made from Mt. Herderite in Au-
burn. Quantities of quartz are also be-
ing shipped to be manufactured into
sandpaper.
Col. +. c. Robinson Of Blaine, has
taken the contract from Cyrus Chase's
hands to furnish hard wood lumber for
$4,000 cant dog stocks for the Bangor
Edge Tool Company.
A large drive of logs is expected
down the Piscataquis river next spring.
The owners of the dam at East Dover
will put in suice way this winter to
enable this drive to pass through there
more easily.
Mr.. Godfrey of Spruce Head.is work
ing his quarry this winter and has quite
good pile of paving stock ready for the
cutters when the frost starts in the
spring. There are sheets in this quarry
40 feet long. so fest wide, that would
average three feet thick
Ranger Bros. of Foxcroft. have just
received an order for 1l7s panels for the
Wason Car Manufacturing Company
Of Springfield, Mass. Last year
Ranger Bros. supplied this same con-
Germ with 10000 panels and they gave
get good per cent. of the orders.
The shoe factory at Old Town has
been leased by A. j. Keith of that city
and thirty or thirty-five hands will be
employed there during the winter max
ing driving boots. Mr.. Keith ran the
shoe factory in this business last sea-
son. Already the work at the factory
has begun and sample boots are being
made
J. w. Bennett Of Gilead. expects to
have three hundred cords of birch at
the Wight mill and from ten to twelve
hundred cords of birch at his village
mill. He estimates that five to six
hundred cords of hard wood will be
made into sugar shocks. He expects
to have from five to six hundred cords
of cord wood. His twenty-five or thirty
horses will have a chance to work.
The large fishing establishment
operated by Messrs. Davis & Pike of
Lubec has lately added new industry.
that of freezing fish, no matter what
the condition of the weather may be.
1t has been the practice heretofore, of
spreading the fish thinly over the
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weather was such, that Jack Frost
could touch them with his icy breath.
they could freeze all the wharf space
would admit of. BY the new process
Jack is confined in the building, and
is made to do the work; subject to the
will of a master. in a much better and
cleanlier manner. The 'modus operan-
dr. consists of putting the fish in gal
iron pans holding about a
peck, and tightly covered, taking about
one hundred of these pans to each
hogshead of fish. The pans after filling
are carefully placed in wooden tanks
manner of freezing ice cream. and in
from seven to eight hours. the work is
and the fish are frozen into
a solid cake. The covers are then re-
moved. and the fish are taken and
passed through slot in the door of /
cold storage room. while one of the !
workmen stands like Jack in the |
box" AMI carefully piles them away |
until wanted. This room is supplied |
with galvanized tanks. filled with ice |
and salt, with waste pipes to carry off |
all drainage. The temperature of this |
room is kept at twenty degrees all the |
time. A thermometer is placed behind !
a glass in the door so that a person
passing can readily see if everything is
all right. They have some twelve hun
dred or more pans in use at present
and it has proved such grand sue
cess that more will be added in the
near future. and the business will be