Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-17
Maine Industrial News.

Inefe were 500 pounds of CLAIMS
| packed the past week at Mr.. Friends
clam factory in South BluehilI.
kncwlton's kindling wood factory in
Guilford is being run with a full crew
| and on full time and there is a ready
| market for its products.
Gardner H. Rankin of Hiram, has
sold his grist mill to Isaac Lowell, who
mas leased ''Banson's milf in Brown
| field. Mr.. Rankin will put in a board
saw.
Lester Tibbetts of Locke's Mills, has
| purchased the mill known as Rand's
mill in Milton Plantation and all of the
wild land hereabout of the syndicate
the American Bobbin, Spool G. Shuttle
| Company.
Ward Jones and Hiram Caswell of
North Arson, have completed the job
| of getting out 400 dozen of shovel han
die blocks in New Portland. They
We're hauled to be shipped to C. Mar
shall's factory in Oakland.
The lumber season, as far as saving
| and shipment goes, has practically
| closed and during that time 1875, 900
| feet has been shipped from Bangor,
| against 1853, 100000 feet in 1897, making
| a decrease of 81, 900, 900 feet.
| s. W. Libby of Albany, has recently
| rebuilt his min in Albany, where he
has threshed between five and eight
hundred bushels of grain and has made
$500 gallons Of cider, this fall.
Booth Bros. Hurricane Granite Com
pany are furnishing 500 tons of granite
for ballast ON the United States trans
porl Mohawk now at Bath. The ma
terial is being shipped by rail from
| Waldoboro.
| The York mill, Biddeford, is going
| into the manufacture of fancy ging-
| hams. One hundred and sixty cling
ham looms are to be put in in the base
| ment Of the new mill and quite a num-
Der are to be changed over in the upper
| weave room.
| About 40 men find steady employ
ment digging CLANS for Eaton Bros. of
Stonington. From 100 to 200 barrels Of
clans are shipped TO Boston every
| week.
Frank A. Follett of Belfast, has be
gun the manufacture of jigs. and Will
! run $4,000 in various sizes. The hooks
recently arrived directly from Eng
land Mr.. Follett is famous for the
excelency of his jigs, and sells them in
nearly every fishing port in the coun-
try,
a visit to some of che leading indus
| tries in Camden finds them in a flour
| ishing condition and the prospect for
winters business better than for years
past. The shipyards are crowded with
| work. Houses are going up. The
| wooden mills are all running on full
time. At the Camden Anchor Works a
large crew is running day and night.
w. H. & d. J. jackson, who OWNS a
steam mill situated one mile east of
Monsoon village, purchased. the past
summer. machinery for the manufac-
ture of barrel hoops. The same has
been put in operation at their mill and
the outlook is good for a healthy bust
ness. They have already begun the
making of hoops and have filled several
orders. The past week they received
an order from one Massachusetts firm
for 10000 hoops.
The Lowell bicycle factory, South
Portland, is about ready to enlarge its
industry by branching out in the man.
ufacture of sporting guns and revolt
vers. For some time past this COM
pany has been engaged in making
handouts, police goods, etc, and nov
that these other articles are to be
added to the productions of the plan,
it is likely that the force of men EN-
ployed will be materially increased.
|, H. w. Richards of Sangerville, is
carrying on quite an extensive lumber
operation at Guiford mountain this
winter He will cut 10000 of spruce
and hemlock 200 cords of poplar. IS of
!. white birch, IS of bark and lis cords of
: cord wood. The long lumber will be
hauled to C. S. Wharff's mill and the
. white birch to Knowlton at Guilford.
The poplar goes to Dover. The bark
will be loaded at Sangerville station.
During the series of years in which
e. X Wilson of Cherryfield, has con-
, Quoted business at his steam mill he
} does not recollect a more prosperous
D one for his business than the season Of
: 1898 Mr.. Wilson besides planning &c.,
: 900 feet of lumber for shipment by
parties in Cherryfield, has manufac-
, tured 100000 sardine shocks and $4,000
, banana crates, affording employment;
: for IS hands with a disbursement Of
7 $500 for wages, His market for sar-
: dine cases extends from Jonesport to
: Boothbay HalOOr, and the crates are
sold in Boston.