Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-12-03

| weight.
| f: ]. Carsley Of Dexter. has bought
| during the past few months 1900 cords of
| pupwood which will be shipped to s. D.
| Warren & Co. of Cumberland Mills, some
| to Brunswick and the balance to Madi-
| son.
| The Foster toothpick factory at
| Strong has been shut down for a few
| days past, owing to lack of lumber
AS soon as sufficient snow falls to haul
| birch from the woods the mill will be
| started with a full crew.
The Farwell mill, Lisbon. has recently
| received through the Boston selling
agents. an order for 10000 pieces of cur
| tain stuffs, somewhat similar in weave to
scrlm, and work on the order is already
under way. The weaving of such fabrics
! is rather a new departure for the Far
well mill. The mill corporation is keep
| ing a small crew of men busy cutting
| pine lumber from a timber tract recently
purchased of Enoch Tibbetts. and it is
| expected that one hundred million feet
| sawed at the lumber mill, and is used
principally by The Lisbon mill. although
a quantity is annually Shipped to the
company landed 100 cords from a tract
just this side of the first overhead bridge
on the electric line. The corporation is
employing about go hands just at pres
ent.
cOll!l lIeidiu VI 1Ol1Ilild, VIII a
large amount of numbering in Foxcroft
and vicinity the present winter He
recently purchased of Charles Bridges
large lot in Guilford upon which
there stands spruce, poplar, pine and
cedar in large quantities. The spruce
and poplar will be cut this season and
hauled to the FoXcroft station. Mr.
Ireland is an extensive operator as well
as owner of wild lands and it is quite
possible that he will build a saw mill
| on this lot. He can thus saw the cedar
and pine on this lot and also that from
other neighboring lots.
The Mckay Shoe Machine Company
having decided to erect peg wood mills
at Bingham, have purchased three
| acres of land of S. A. and A Dinsmore
and will build just south of the Fitz
Bros. last factory. The saw mill will
be completed this winter and will saw
the birch into bars. Next season mills
Will be built to strip the bars into thin
wooden ribbons. The railroad will be
extended from the station to the mills
The company expect to work about i
million feet of lumber this season.
Everything indicates that there will be
the largest amount of teaming into
Bingham, this winter, there has ever
been. Two thousands cords of white
birch will be worked at the spool bar
mill; three or four thousand cords of
pulp will be shipped to the pulp mill
at Solon, and five hundred thousand
feet of maple worked at the last block
factory.
Around Dead river the outlook is
that the cut of lumber will be some
what smaller than that of former
years. Present contracts in Lang
Town are by Elias Thomas, 1,5OO 900:
Coplin, by Lawrence Bros. 1,250,O 900;
Crocker Town, by Lawrence Bros, q
100000; Alder Stream, by Lawrence,
Newhall & Co., 100000: Chain of
Ponds, by Berlin Mills Co, 5000, 900;
Flagstaff, by Elias Thomas, 500, 900;
| Black Brook, by Elias Thomas and
others, 100000; Pratt tract, by New
| ton &, Colby, 100000 No. 5, by Law
renee Bros, 100000; Bog Brook, by
Elias Thomas, 100000. The winter and
condition of the lumber market will
vary these figures somewhat.
l.. A. Worthley and W. w. Rowland
! of Avon have Joined John r. Tooth
| aker of Rangeley in contract to get
| out two million feet of spruce for Bean
& Whitcomb, New Hampshire firm
| They will land it in Cupsuptic lake
| Mr. Toothaker has also taken a con-
| tract to land four millions on Moose
lookmeguntic lake, in the vicinity of E.
| +. Whorff's camps.
| Lumber shipping on the Penobscot is
| practically over for the season, al
| though several schooners are loading
| at present. All the Bangor concerns
have nearly completed the years busi-
ness. At Ayers, Sterns' and at the
! Ashland Manufacturing Company's
wharves there is still some lumber to
| be sent out and the last named COM
| pany, it is said, wish to ship nearly a
million more but there is difficulty in
procuring vessels, especially since the
storm. The steamship Daniel is on her
way to Bangor to load at Ayers for