Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-02
Maine Industrial News.

The Warren shoe factory Is turning
out 1909 pairs day at present.
II. ]. Bailey of Rowland. cut about g.
ooo feet of lumber the past winter.
Ogunquit is enjoying a building boom.
Ten houses and a hotel are in process OF
constructit
w F. Bisses of Bluehill has sold over
500OUe pavingsblocks from his quarries AT
Penobscot this season.
Business at the Paris sled factory q
booming. The company has more order
than ii can NIL and the men are workinN
on extra time.
The Island Falls Bark Company 1laL|
ing 1000 cords Of bark on the brtbGfn
hal half OF 5, staeyville and employ ~ men;
peeling bark.
Nearly every lumber mill in G4lais And
vicinity is shut down owing tdf N Nuisx-
pected scarcity OF logs The MI t5e
of the season is not expected unJ34
time in July. N
1t is reported that several new bud
ings Will be erected in Bar Harbor the
coming fall, and that there will be YnDrs
building done another season than there
has been the last year.
The Monsoon Maine Slate Company Is
arranging to settle with ITS men, whose
wages for the past four or five months
are due. The company will pay one
iiioheu Wages III d lSW udSS
The paper mill at South Brewer which
Was started several weeks ago after a
prolonged shut down is doing a rushing
business and the mill will probably be
run day and night in short time.
The Great Falls Manufacturing Com
pany of Berwick. is running its mills 10
hours Il week. over production Is reason
Tor this and as soon as the surplus goods
are sold, the mills viii run on full time.
The Guilford Lumber Company mill
has not been started this season and the
village, in spite of its activity in other
lines. feels the suspension of work bit
for at least go men are employed in the
mill when it is in operation.
A. J. Chase & Co. of Milo. have fin
ished saving spool stock at their mill and
are now engaged saving their logs
They have nearly 100000 feet of spool
bars which are contracted and viii be
shipped from Bangor TO Scotland.
b. F. Spinney & Co. are doing a good
business at the Norway shoe factories.
About 90 cases of shoes of 60 pairs each
We're manufactured a day or two ago.
the largest number ever made in these
factories The firm expects to make as
many as 100 cases a day.
There is some excitement over the pros
pect of a dam which is to be built across
the Sebasticook river at a point three
miles above thurman. The business men
of Pittsfield have been looking over the
location and they call it one of the best
water powers in this part of the State
with fall Of from Is to IL feet. They pro-
pose to erect an electric plant in the near
future for the benefit of the village
According to +. j. Abbott who for
twelve years has conducted pant man
nfactory in Dexter, there has been
great change of late years In this branch
of the business. Formerly the work was
practically all sent out from the cutting
shops of great Boston firms for making
up in the country. His own shop. Mr.
Abbott says, made as many as 81. 900 pairs
of pants in a year. for these firms. Now
most of the Maine shops have closed ont
and there Is very little business from
Boston houses for those that are left.
The manufacturers of clothes every
where have gone into pant making on
their own account. and his business OF
late years, Mr.. Abbott says has be-
from this source. Wooden mills at
bot, Houlton. Guilford. North Da
and Dexter have been putting pant
cloths of their own manufacture
market and the work has com
them.