The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-11-19
IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Gen. Leay tt Jnbiiant Oyer Railroad and
Industrial Projects.
Bangor Commercial \

railroad, ard one of the leading citizens
of eastern Maine was jubilant Monday
over the arrival OF the first train. "This
makes me feel ten years youns err, he re-
marked with vigorous animation to the
Commercial. ssI've thought about it,
alked about it, dreamed OF it, doubted it,
hoped for it and here Ii is. I've been
hammering away for railroad for
twenty odd years. Many who were with
me In the olden days have fallen by ths
wayside discouraged. Many hopeful ones
are IN their graves but think that the
Shrek OF our locomotives will cause them
to turn over.
This is great day for Eastport and ii
means mat we are going to grow and ex-
pand rapidly There will be nothing like
MS in Maine in ten years. Well double
our population. triple our business and
quadruple ourlaw the This is no i'd
talk. It's visible everywhere, is felt by
everybody, and it's bound to be SO for we
are natural gold mine down this way
only we had no way to bring in the ma
terial to dig if out at a profit. I don't
refer to marine gold.
why, just see whatnwe We got in our
minds eye by way of developing our bust
ness and giving employment to orr people
summer and winter. Winter has always
been our dull season because there is nc
sardine. business from December to May.
Pretty soon the men and women can
work all the year.
This is how we are going to do it. &.
D. ~ - -
concern, started the building of shook
mill 100 1870, three weeks ago. 1t will
be ready soon and hundreds OF men ara
70 be employed. A shoe factory, a fish.
supply company, buster of a grain
elevator. more sardine factories. Oh, ]
can't think of them all at,once. It seems
that we've awakened since the first rail
was laid on this road and are going. to
keep awake.
mense benefit here. They estimate that
they will saw so, 000, 600 feet Of logs the
first year. That of course will ..reyiye.the
lumber trade in these waters. Maine and
Nova Scotia lumber will supply the mill
A mile spur of them w. G. K. r. will be
run to the mill There they are at tide
water, 20 feet deep at low water at their
dock
IA number of local men have gotten
hbe5o uACL tthA W0 ~ SV4AS w AiRIV 2 HAASS
factory Well probably employ 100 or
more hands at first. But We'll grow, Of
course. Mr.. Lowell, of Lynn, formerly a
local resident, is coming down here to es.
tablish it for use.
A Consumers Ice company will be
formed by local capital. We will cut a
big and sufficient crop fro INF enmaquam
river while at present we get 1t az local
ponds.
ssWell, that fresh fish company. We
have tbs national facilities for all pollock,
cod and other fish in Passamaquoddy
bay. We can supply the whole country
with fish. We are going to supply bloat-
srs, fnan haddie and all sorts of dried
fish. Now we've got rail facilities and
we won't have to waitffor the elements.
Why you can sit on any of our wharfs
and oatch cod as big as q barrel and as
for other fish the bay outside is teeniing
with them.
We pack million cases OF Fardines a
year and this year the labor has been bet
terd idsthan ever and the manufacturers
have made more money. It's been great
year. We are the greatest sardine center
in this country or any other. Then there
is the lobster industry rabout 1000 cases a
year Towrs around here send out 1000
900 or SO boxes of smoked herring ever.y
year. There Lubec, Robbinstou and
Pembroke to say nothing of smaller con-
cerns.
Why we will keep our railroad busy
with fish alone. Mostly it will go rail to
the west direct over the Canadian Pacific.
This sardine business is only about 20
years old and It's growing every year. We
pay out more money according to our
population than any other town in New
England. I've seen them pay out as high
as ss7, 600 week for wages. There are
81 sardine factories il, Eastport, Lubec,
Perry and Robbinston; 5000 people are
given employment /"
stBut our grain elevator is one of the
biggest things for us. When we get tia
we can be independent and can afford TO
buy more grain. Some 80 years ago there
WAS young man leit Eastport his
native place. He struck for the west,
went into mans store one day and
asked for job. The proprietor replied,
when can you go to work2" As soon
as can find place to hang up my hat, -
the boy replied promptly. Today that
Passport boy is worth many millions-he
is in fact the grain king OF the west. His
name is Frank H. Peavey. He has since
presented Eastport with . line. public
Us when be builds his big grain elevat or
as I hear he contemplates. OF course,
Calais might get jealous, but Frank
won't go away from home.
when we get this grain elevator we
will probably become billing point or
maybe Calais will. 1t won't make much
difiersnce for the short haul. Then we
can get our grain as oheaply as Portland
or Boston and that will be a saving of
yearly. We can store thousands
Of bushels and the whole county will be
benefited.
nav steamboat line to Digby, N. S.,
where we will tap the Dominion Atlantic
railway and connect with st. John,
Yarmouth and Halifax. Our gsograph-
ioaI uusition gives us the key to the water
situation. We can ship direct to New
York. Boston or Balifax and we should
become a great distributing point / UNI
derstand another line is contemplated
from Boston Oh, there will be compe-
zion a plenty next summer. TIE islands
of Campobello, Grand Manan, Deer
Island, Lu5ec and the New Brunswick
shores have about 10000 people. These
places are all tributary to Eastport and
we can't help but become big, bustling
city in time"
WANTED -FEMALE HELP.