Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-03
Maine Industrial News.

Maine Industrial News.
West Franklin hears whispers OF i'm
| proving Stone business.
| Berry IL Smith. Bangor. sail makers,
are making army tents - be sent TO San
| tiago. cuba.
| The Mattawamkcag drive has reached
| the boom and The crew are at oldtown.
| The drive contains -. go 90 feet Of logs.
| There have been $4,000 cans made for
the corn factory. North Arson. this sea-
son and Thursday an order came to make
| 80 0n morc.
| An addition Is being built To the west
side Of the Madison Erist mill 20 accom-
modate the increasing business Of the
new proprietorS Perkins a Weston.
The Columbia Packing Company have
| built an extension To- their wharf AZ lH-
| bee and put up a large sailing shed to
| accommodate their Increasing business.
| T. IT, Phair is having the starch mills
| at Limestone remodelcd. ana the ARGOS
took Republican says that when finished
these mills viii be- among the best in the
county.
John McElroy of Monmouth. is enlarg-
| ing his blanket mill To about twice the
present capacity. He has a large crew
working now on the foundations and
| walls.
The pulp mill At brunswick, which has
been shut down for about iwo Wtcks. has
/ a
has been received which is being cut up
AT the Colby mill.
The Saneerville Wooden Company has
orders sufficient to keep its mill running
night and day Tor two months. The COM
wool from WynHnnm Idi ~ pnulgt
business AT the quarry at,I7NiI slows
| Mills, Lincoln county. is booming. \
crew of thirty-tive men are working att
the granite. besides a crew of carpenters
repairing and building.
| Horace Reed. who is pilng logs for the
| Manufacturing Investment Company att
| Madison. uses his portable steam boiler
| and engine ana employs six men, and will
be busy at it two months.
The shipment Of spool bars from
| 5lanehard via Maine Central Railroad to-
! Portland has begun. About IS cars of
this timber has been sold by Geo. W.
Stacy 10 20 across the water.
C. c. Dcnnclt of Bath. has received the
contract for 100 wagon coverings for the
United States army. The work is 10 he
completed in three weeks 1t will take
upwards OF i2o11 yards OF canvas.
Joseph IT. Philbrook & Son of Lisbon
! Fails. have taken the contract to bui!d
six double tenement houses at Pejepscot
Mills. The Androscosgin Water Power
Company are getting out thu lumber.
| The gang Of the DcnnySvtlle Lumber
| Company have completed saving our the
winter cut of logs. The shook mill will
continue 10 run, says the PASSPORT Sem
tinel, having plenty Of material on hand.
y new enterprise is being started at
| Rumiord by Sloane n Allen. They will
! build steam mill in heavy hard wood
| forest, mostly rock maple, which they
will saw into plank for bicycle rims etc.
The Goodall Worsted Company are to
use some of the looms in Springvllc cot
! ton mills for the manufacture OF a spec
ial line of lining goods of which they are
| the only manufacturers in this country.
says the Bddeford Record.
At Mt. Waldo, Prospect. a large amount
of building Is in progress. There are
eight new houses upon which crews Of
men are at work, besides the two board
ling houses More will soon be started ii
is understood. 1t is impossible to get
rents NJ present. anG there is great de
mand for new houses.
sullivan Brothers of Rockland. have re-
built their lime kiln at lslesbnro ana are
again burning lime. The lime Is of good
quality and meets with good sales. The
kiln will hc kept burning during the sum
mer. and the fire which recently de-
stroyed the buildings did not seem to put
a damper on the manufacturing.
Owing TO the low price paid for lime
Icasks, Nannah. Chute q Co. Of Winslow's
Mills, have decided not to set up any more
casks ut present but will manufacture
tight work, such as fish barrels. and will
add some machinery for getting out
Istaves, planning heads. etc. The company
Boston parties.
Samuel II. I.isk the owner of a valua-
bile water power and large plant on the
Presumpscot river at the Upper Falls
has not been able yet to obtain permis-
sion from the South Portland board of
selectmen to do electric lighting there and
unless he is successful soon the Boston
and New York capitalists who are back
ing him will give up the scheme.
| IT is stated by a Corinna citizen that
nplp "A had
build at Corinna on the site of the wool
en- mill recently burned. Mr. Greenwood
has commenced the work of clearing
away the debris preparatory to some sort
of action. 1t Is understood by the Ban
gor Commercial that concerns with whom
he has done business in the past Will aid
him to get started again.
Business at F. X. Wilson'S box shook
and packing case mill at Cherryfied is
lively. Mr.. Wilson reports this to be the
| busiest season for several years. The
coming of the railroad will, no doubt, al
so increase his business it will enable
fhim to secure orders from packing COM
panies in the interior of the State. At
present. shipments are made wholly by
water and sales are confined to the coast
towns.
! General Grant OF Cherryneld. the
east river lumberman. after seven
weeks drag at "skinning'' hemlocks in
the wilds of Township 80. has returned
home with his crew of 2S men. The re-
suits of his seven weeks sojourn in the
mountains are 53S cords of bark which
, are contracted for by Buzzcll L. Rice for
ltheir tannery on Township 80 and 800 900