Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-03-28
Maine Industrial News.

| Granite shipments have been resumed
| from the frankfort quarries.
| Several new houses are to be erected
in Brunswick the coming season
| There is now excellent prospect of an
other wooden mill being erected in old
| Town al an early date.
| Five small houses at the foot of oak
street, South Brewer. are being torn
down. to make additional yard room for
Ayers mill.
| J. X. Pollock of the Piscataquis wooden
mills of Guilford. is quoted as saying that
his mill is running - hours a DAY making
fine face cashmere goods.
The new saw mill at Middle Intervale
Bethel, is turning out about 5000 feet
| every twentyfour hours; d day and nigh
crew running ten hours each.
Frank l.. Nelson of Machias. has cut.
hauled and sawed 200 900 slaves and 400 900
lath, the past winter. and cut and hauled
400 cords of wood, of different kinds and
200 piling.
he has an order for 30. 600 tons of ice to
be shipped this season to GERMANY The
merchant has been getting prices from
dealers along the Penobscot.
There is probability of a canning fac
tory being erected at coopers Mills this
spring. If 50 a large acreage of sweet
corn will be planted in Whtefield and in
the western part of jefferson.
The Harrison corn factory is busy
with the work of the can makers who
will make this year about 100000 cans
The total acreage of the factory will be
about 400 acres of which amount already
so has been signed.
Business is beginning to look a little
brighter for the Biddeford quarrymen.
and number of laborers who have been
lying idle for the past five months have
commenced work and are getting things
in readiness for spring.
Nose Bros. of MachiaS. have contracted
with r. +. Rivenac to furnish 1000 piing
for the Passport branch of the Washing
ton County Railroad. Two hundred
sticks are to be nifty feet in length ana
eight inches at the top
Joseph Ingraham has taken d contract
to cut and haul 300 cords of wood for \.
\. Burleigh. proprietor of Patten Rail
road. The wood is being cut on land
owned by dr Burl"igh. as ne wishes u
have the land cleared. Mr.. Ingraham
employs some Y men to assist in the cut
ting.
The Archibald Carriage Wheel Com
pdnN. which has decided to erect a fac
tory in close proximity 10 The station Of
the Portland x Rochester Railroad Eat
SpringVale. is having large quantities ut
lumber hauled to the site of the pro-
posed plant. 10 be- manufactured into car
rage wheels.
The cargo Of ground wood PUN. zee
Manchester England. is the last snip
mont which will be- ma /. by the Piscata-
quis Pulp x Paper Company. until after
Bangor Is open - navigation when au-
other barge steamer VIII come To Bangor
for a cargo Of pulp to be Shipped ~ this
company.
The spool factory opened in the w. f.
Nillikeu mill at Ellsworth las; fan. has
done a good business and furnished en-
ployment to quite a force during The
winter. owing to the snow leaving So
early and preventing hauling bat small
stock of hard wood is now on hand at
the factory, enough, it is estimated, TO
last one month.
Brunswick has every Indication Of
busy spring The Fairfield swing com
panN will start up shortly with large
amount of orders on hand and the new
factory will accommodate a much larger
crew Of workmen. The extension Of the
Brunswick and Bath Electric Railroad Will
furnish work for many. also the spring
crews of the Maine Central Will he set TO
work.
1t is rumored that parties have found
a quarry of good limerick IN Waldoboro.
ana will build kiln of modern con-
struCtion and large capacity. II the rock
is all right lime can be burned there as
cheapy as in any place in Maine. Casks
are made there from material grown and
sawed in that vicinity. Fuel can be oh
tanned in ineXhaustible quantities Al small
ments may he made by sea or rail CON
NenIently.
The Burgess @ Brien lime uudrrIes and
kilnS in ThomdSton may not long remain
idle according to reports. II is said that
negotiations are now pending with New
York firm. When the idle men receive
summons to return To work the day
may we'll be considered a red letter one
for Thomaston. The inactivity OF this
plant is seriously felt by the merchants
of ThomdSton as well as by the workmen
deprived of 4 livelihood.
Lander X Savage have ~ horses ON
Pierce pond town. that they expect to
find much difficulty in getting out OF the
woods Twelve of them are their own
horses and eight are hired teams. They
have their logs all hauled to the landing
except about 100000 and except to dis
charge the hired teams but work their
own while longer. It will, Mr.. Lander
SAYS. he necessary now to shovel about
three and one-half miles to get these
teams out. and then they will be across
the kcnncbeC from home.
Among the leading Iumbermen Of
Aroostook are the Cunliffe Bros. who
have this winter five camps on the ALA
cash waters and are cutting about seven
millions. During the winter they have
employed from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred and twenty-five men. They
have now thirty-four pairs of horses
hauling the lumber from the yards. an
this they intend having on the landings
by MJftn 9th We tfNtS are u Ht
built before driving begins, on the Little
MuSQuacook. tire other ON Whitaker
brook one hundred and thrtN-tive men
will he employed to drive the lumber to
the mouth of the AllagaSh where ii Will
pass into the hands of the "Madawaska
Log Driving Company.
1t is quite possible that there will be
Il revival of Nhipbuilding in Belfast in
the near future, Not long since Mr..
W. IL. Brown of the firm of Mcdonald
x Brown. received Il letter from Balti
more parties regarding the building of a
1900 tons vessel. Correspondence is going
on regarding the same. George w. Cot
trell. another Belfast builder. has recent
lN heard from parties who want a vessel
built. Last week Mr., John Wardwell, for
some years master builder in II. NJ.
Beans ship yard in Camden, was in Bel
fast. He wanted to lease a yard here to
build a large vessel. He has postponed
the matter for a time however, in order
to assist Mr.. Bean in building a huge
schooner that is to be built in Cam den at
once When the latter is completed Mr..
WardWell may come to Belfast and
build one as contractor. himself. Bel
fast is Il very desirable place for ship
building. has several convenient yards
and "A number of excellent carpenters,
CAPT. .. \. Crockett of the RoCkland.
Bluehill and Ellsworth Steamboat Line is
making extensive preparations for the
coming season. He is about to build a
wharf at North Deer Isle in the vicinity
of one owned by the NJ. &. r. K. at which
to make his landings. Steamer Juliettc