Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-01
LARGEST IN WORLD.
Mllllnocket to Have Immense
Pulp and Paper Mill.
Company Backed by Millions and viii
Do Enormous Business.
Will Use Between so O00 0on and en-
Will Use Between 100000 and CO..
100000 Feet Fer Year.

Soi' VIZ, OCT. 3I.-(SpeciaD.-l
Within the past few weeks several
announcements have been made of the
building OF an immense pulp and paper
NH on the line of the Bangor & Aroo-
stock Railroad. These reports have
been denied by many people. Including
those VINO were most interested in the
deal, as they had not perfected ar
rangements SO that they could be given
OH Tor publication. The Journal man
Is apie to give the first complete story
Oh the great enterprise. The mill will
pc located at Millinocket, and not at
Norcross as has been several times
stated. 1t was always supposed that
Ewhen pulp and paper mill was erect
ed in that vicinity the promoters of the
scheme would be obliged to build the
mill on Grand Falls, point on the
West branch of the Penobscot river
some three miles from the railroad.
II mill was erected there it would
De necessary to build a branch of the
railroad to it and this could not be
done only to great expense. The new
nliil VIII be erected within a stones
throw of the B. & A. 1t vii! be run by
water power and the water viii be
brought through a canal distance of
about miles from Qualis lake
Ihere Will be natural fall part of
the way, and by erecting a dam at the
lower end of the canal, a 100-foot head
will be had, which will give more power
imam would be needed to run a mill
twice the size of the one to be erected
at Millinocket, and this will be the
largest pulp and paper mill in the
world. This is not a wild statement.
1t is a fact. The mill will be much
larger than the big mills owned by the
wealthy English syndicate at Sault
Ste. Marie, and which are managed by
F. Fl. Clergue, formerly of Bangor, and
which have been the subject of so many
newspaper stories in all sections of the
country.
The company which will build the
| mill at Millinocket has placed the
handling of its affairs in the hands of
Garrett Schenck of Rumford Falls, who
| is we'll known in Maine and who is re-
| sponsible for the growth of the little
metropolis of the western part of the
state, and the many successful enter
prises there now in opedation.
The new company is capitalized at
many millions of dollars and it has al
ready spent through Mr.. Schenck and
his agent, c. w. Mullen of Old Town.
between $125.000 and $150.000 at Mill
nocket. Engineers have been at work
cross sectioning the river above North
Twin dam, ever since last spring, and
| they are now there engaged in the
work. This part of the work is being
done under the supervision of A. B.
| Tower, of New York, the well-known
| hydraulic engineer who has been in
charge of the reconstruction of Ban
gor's water works system, for the past
year, and q half.
Four townships have been purchased by
| the syndicate and they expect to cut
enough spruce on this property to last
5hem for several years in case the owners
| IL Wild lands in that section should see d
| 4tumpage. But thes promoters of the pulp
| md PAPER mill project do not expect that
| lnything like this will take place. In fact
hey are banking on having the pick of
the West Branch drive each spring.
| The new mill will use between 54000,000
and 60,G00,0OO feet of logs each year, and
| as there are only about 100000 in the
West Branch drive. it looks as il some
| body else would have a chance to sell
| power, and land enough to control it, of
| the Mullen syndicate and MesSrs. f. Ii.
| Appleton and S. r. Prentiss OF this city.
| The negotiations for this property We're
| completed in Bangor, last week. and the
| price paid for the. water power alone was
| something like s35. 900.
The work of construction of the new
mill will begin. early next spring, or Just
| rs soon as the snow leaves the ground in
| that section so that eXcavating can begin.
| The new mill is going to be of immense
value to Bangor in more ways than one.
| 1t is the intention of the syndicate to es-
| tablsh a little city a Miliinocket. In
| fact it is believed that this station, which
is now in the center of a region inhabited
only by about dozen people, will be
second Rumford Falls in few years.
1t is estimated that the biggest part of
he business in the freight department on
he Bangor q Aroostook Railroad will
'ome from the erection OF this mill. AL!
# the coal, ETC., to be used there will be
brought to Bangor and discharged onto
he cars and sent to Millinocket. Thou
sands of carloads of pulp and paper will
pc shipped yearly from the new mill and
4 greater part of the pulp will be sent by
vessel from Bangor to foreign shores. 1t
intended to establish big foreign bus
ness with this mill.
The new plant is being erected to
buck" the new pulp and paper trust,
known as the International Pulp q Paper
Co. a corporation which is paying its
president, so it is stated, a salary of $25,-
)oo per year.