Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-25
AUGUSTA. MAINE. THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 25. 1897.
Maine Industrial News.

new coal firm has been started in
Brewer
Digging ship knees is thriving indus
try in Cooper.
Philip Andrews of Dixfield carded over
a ton of wool this season.
Six carloads Of Christmas trees will be
| shipped from Orland this season.
The three brickyards in Orland have
made up about two million brick this sea-
| son.
John Hathaway of Columbia Falls, has
made $4,000 pallets for the brickyard
| there.
Whitman Cook is to build a mill at
Fryeburg for the purpose of manufacture
ing chisel handles.
The 3. E. Cole & Co. shoe factory at
Ellsworth. has orders ahead to last
| through the winter.
Dixfield Center farmers refuse to raise
sweet corn another year for less than
two cents per pound.
| The Fernald. Keene & True Company
or West Poland, report an excellent pack
OF corn this year-650, 600 cans.
There is talk at the Bowdoin Paper
| Company. Brunswick, of putting in cleo
trical machinery to furnish their mills
| with their own light.
| The new addition to the toothpick mill
at Dixlield is nearly completed, and will
|
| uses about 500 cords of wood per year.
During the month of October the pay
roll Of the Indian Spring Wooden Com
pany of Madison. amounted to $12. 800 The
| mill employs two crews at present, about
| $50 hands in all.
| LAUNDERING in the Rangeleys this year
Will be on small scale, practically moth
| ing being done in that line. Over in the
| Seven Ponds region the Berlin Mills folks
| will cut large quantity of spruce.
| Babson &, Co. of Foxoroft, have sold
the stumpage of about ], 10000 of spruce
| in Barnard and Williamsburg to four Sc
| bee men. This spruce will be noated
down the Piscataquis river to Rowland.
| S. A. Jones' saimaker of Waldoboro, is
| busy in the sail loft making sail for four
schooners. A few days ago he shipped
| sails for three schooners. He has three
assistants in addition to his usual force.
'Tis said that the Camden Works
make the best anchors in the world
They have been at the business for
| over half century.
Business at the Brownville Maine slate
| quarry is rushing; there are quantities of
slate being shipped and several orders
waiting. In the spring a large building
for storing purposes will be built at their
siding
The Goss & Small stone woks at
Stonington, employing a large force
of men, will ship 10000 tons of stone
in the rough during the next eight
months to New York City for a bridge.
Business at the pulp mill of the East
ern Manufacturing Company at South
Brewer IS very good. 1t is understood
that the company has sold all of the pulp
on hand and much of it will be shipped
to Europe.
Work at the Red Beach Granite Works,
never was so good as at present. An
increased number of men have been put
to work at the quarries, and the large
amount of orders ahead will insure
steady work all winter.
The Bowdon Paper Company, Bruins
wick, are putting in big water tank in
the top of their mill. to add to their fire
service. says the Telegraph They are
turning out So tons of paper every day
now, running mainly on foreign orders.
Fred Ellsworth of Salem, has contract
ed to cut and deliver 1900 cedar railroad
ties from land situated in Kingtield. and
owned by Weston Lewis of Gardiner,
and others. Mr.. Ellsworth thinks of TAX
ing plant into the woods for use in fin
iShing the ties.
There is strong talk of business re-
vival at Bryant Pond. 1t is reported that
parties are negotiating for both the mills
and that both are liable to be put into
operation this winter. thus giving en-
ployment to many citizens besides Great
ing a market there for a large supply of
wood and lumber.
The past months business done by
Ranger Bros. at the veneer mill in Do
yer has been greatly in excess of that
done in the corresponding month last
year. During the coming winter they
will have 10000 feet of bass cut for man.
ufacturing into veneers and panels dur
ing the coming summer.
The hen business at Orrs Island is on
the decline, reports the Six Towns
Times. OF the dozen enterprising
persons who went into the hen bust
ness in that vicinity two or three years
ago. none of the originals are engaged
in it at the present time.
c. F. Phillips has nearly completed
his mill dam at Livermore, which is 56
feet, inches long: built of logs and
filled with stone. In the construction
of the dam there was used 1900 pounds
of iron. 1t is called very solid st1,uc-
ture. The workmen are now framing
the mill which will be 25x4O feet and
one story high.
F. l.. Smith. Oliver Grover and A.
H. Mahoney of Pittsfield, are doing
quite a business in cutting cord wood
and cedar on their lot four miles from
that village. They have four men at
work now and will keep six horses
busy this winter hauling They ex-
pect to cut 100 cords of cedar, 200 cords
or more of cord wood, and more or less
lumber. Last winter the cedar taken
from the same lot made 450, 900 shingles.
Oxford county turns out a large por-
ton OF the spoOls on which the sewing
thread of the country is wound. says the
Northwestern Lumberman. The spools
are made of white birch The industry
is also important in other counties of
western Maine. There are numerous
saw mills in that part of the State which
are kept busy all the year round saving
birch logs into strips four feet long land
from one to two inches square. These
rods are sent to the spool factories,
where they are worked into spools by in
genious machinery. The sticks are fed
into a<machine. and are not again seen
until they drop out at the other end of a
machine, several rods from the start.
finished spools. with the exception of
polishing. The spools get their gloss by
being revolved in barrels, turned by ma
chinery. in the back woods of oxford |
county there seems to be no other indus
try than spool making. and every adult, |
and child large enough to work. is in |
some way employed in the spool business. |
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