Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-11
Maine Industrial News,

Maine Industrial News.
A. j. Goodwin & Son of Athens. shoe
some 5000 horses a year.
The Highland quarry, Lake View. has
put in electric lights and been running
over time.
Within the last six weeks 60 sleighs
have been shipped from the prison al
Thomaston.
Work is being resumed in the several
departments of the Kennebunk shoe shoT
as fast as practical.
The cloth fmishers owing to increased
business at Browns mill. Dover. have tc
work over time.
During the last month about 1900 tons
of granite have been quarried at Booth
Bros. quarry, Jonesboro.
w. o. Perry of Norway Lake has con-
tracted to saw 100000 shingles this winter
for c. W. & j. l.. Partridge.
Business is good at Dark Harbor. Isles
boro. where several new cottages are UNI
der course of construction.
Three Of J. o. Creighton & Co.'S kilns
at Thomaston are being filed with rock
and will soon be set afire
prominent Bath shipbuilder says that
the present outlook foE business in the
very bright.
The Mibridge Lumber Company will
complete the work this winter of strip
ping the lot that was left unfinished last
season. giving employment to 20 hands.
A. F. Donigan of Bingham, is planning
to do quite a business numbering on his
lot in Mayfie.d. He will get out several
hundred thousand feet of spruce.
j. T. Keen of Oxford has taken a con-
tract to cut and haul to Mechanic Falls
200 cords of wood from the Grin Dyer lot.
The King Brick Yard Company. Column
bia Falls. is running their plant this win
ter with a small crew. but early in the
spring will put on full force.
c. T. Hodgkins & Co. of Temple. sent
a crew of six men and eight horses to the
mountain. for winters work. cutting
and yarding white birch and spruce.
Washburn Brothers of Thomaston.
have frame in their yard for 1900 ton
schooner which they will build in the
spring. This vessel will be the largest
one ever constructed in Thomaston.
C. B. Cummings and Stephen B. Cum
mings of Norway, have disposed of their
patent for the manufacture of tooth
picks to Portland parties. 1t is said to
be one of the best inventions for making
tooth picks in the market.
The proprietors of the pulp mill at
Lincoln. are adding to their business the
art of making paper. The machinery is
nearly all completed and work on the new
year
Grand Trunk. Portland. is going on very
rapidly When it is completed three
steamers will be able to load at one time
10000 bushels of grain an hour or 10000
from each conveyor.
Most of the quarries in Biddeford have
and a number of the wOrkmen have gone
down east to secure employment. The
prospects for orders during the winter
are not very bright.
The clam business at Friendship. is as
lively as ever. Large quantities are
shipped to Boston and the factory is cam
ming all ii can get. There seems no dan
ger of the clam becoming extinct in that
locality. as one man dug IA bushels one
tide last week.
Eben Hinkley of Rangeley. has a crew
of men and horses in the woods near Mt.
Blue. and will do considerable logging
during the winter. He will yard the logs
and have them sawed at the mill near
by. He expects to do good winter s
business.
The present outlook for numbering OPP
erations in Dennysvflle and vicinity is
not as encouraging as in some former
years. Men who heretofore have engaged
for winter work in the logging wood. are
seeking employment along the line of the
railroad.
1t is probable that Bucksport will be
the shipping port for several pulp mills
this winter. says the Ellsworth Ameri-
can Representatives of the mills have
been taking soundings along the wharves
The pulp is shipped abroad in tramp
steamers.
McIntire & Johnson's birch mill at Nor
way lake village. for the manufacture of
spool stock will be ready for operations
in fau la al
hands will be given employment. They
will also erect a mill for the manufacture
of long lumber. on the Harrison road.
A. G. Berry & Son of Bridgton. have re-
ceived a communication from a Pennsyl-
vania firm. asking their terms for fur
nishing them 10000 spruce slaves for
nail kegs. Berry & Son were obliged to
decline negotiations. for the very good
reason that the desired amount OF spruce
(over 1000 cords) could not readily be OBJ
tanned in that immediate region.
Oldtown ice dealers are commencing
carly in the season to prepare for the cut
this winter to supply the trade another
summer. N. c. McCausland & Co. have
already staked out their field. With the
new house built last summer this firm
will put up about 900 tons more than usu-
al this winter. Mr.. Russell is to build
stock cut last winter wasn't enough to
carry him through the season.
Superintendent Dill of the Portland
Packing Company's corn factory at Fox
croft. is pleased over the prospects for
next year. He has increased the capacity
of his factory from 200 acres to 300 acres.
200 of which are already secured. The
work of making the needed 100000 cans
will be commenced in few days and
continued up to the time of packing.
The Merrick Thread Company. Lake
View. will do a large business this win
ter. Since last Aprikithe orders for spools
have been increasing. Five new men
have been put to work roughing and fin
ishisg but with this addition to the reg.
ular crew they haze been unable to FIJI
the orders. The m4l at the Five Islands