Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-06-04
Maine Industrial News.

The sardine factories at MiIbridee,
during the past week have had a full
supply of fish and kept running with
fun crews.
Auburn ana Lewiston shoe factories
have received rush orders" for about
$4,000 pairs Of shoes for the govern
mcnt,
S. w Collins & Son of Caribou.
started crew of ten men To Ash
land. Tuesday. after a drive Of 25o.00o
cedar.
The Fryehurg chair factory has been
leased - New York parties. who are to
manufacture several kinds of furniture.
using as material. oak and other hard
woods.
The Portland Shipbuldng Company
are about II conclude n contract with
Randall McAllister x co. for the con-
struction of a lighter to be 80 feet long,
q to % feet wide and 200 tons capacity.
Marshall Lane If Old Town. is 1T
work putting up n shinclr mill at Shir-
ley. short distance above the Webster
siding which will be run by steam
power. He has a contract to saw for
+. t. Spencer of old Town.
A Swans Island correspondent
writes; "Lohsters seem to have left
oul waters entirely. The most of the
Inhabitants of this town are dependent
on this industry. but it seems probable
that ii must soon be abandoned to.
some more lucrative employment"
Among the freight recently for Bo;-
ton on the kennebec We're 500 lunches
,,Es lot I, >
making crates for bananas. The
lathes are cut especially for that pur-
pose. The Shaw min at Bath has fur
nished many thousands for the Boston
markets this season.
\ contract for work on $500 tents for
the State was completed a Silas Dun
cans clothing factory. Bath. recently.
The nimhle fingers of IS girls in three
weeks completed miles of stitching and
the making of $4,000 button holes and
the attaching of the buttons to match
them.
Corea. situated in Goudshoro. IN
the coast, is now doing an extensive
fishing business. \ fleet of 80 boat
owned there go out every day for fish
and are bringing in goodly numbers
Many fish are sold in Corea To be
shipped West. The place is also some
thing of a resort for sportsmen. Last
week party from Chicago We're there
shooting sea birds, and another party
Will come later.
The Bethel Chair Company has com
pleted the saving of it's spruce ana
pine lumber and has reduced it's crew
considerably. While the sale of chairs
has been somewhat curtailed since the
beginning of the war. the company re-
ports fair business and expects to be
able to run its factory continuously
with nearly its full quota of workmen.
Two months of the shipping season
nave passed, and as yet only about
$4,000 tons of the Penohscot ice crop
mas been sent away. The first cargo
was shipped on April y, and up to date
only Is cargoes have been loaded at
bahGof Tor American ports while a
lew hundred tons have been exported.
The Maine Wooden manufacturers
Association will hold a meeting a.
Fl'tsheid, June :, for the purpose of
arriving at some understanding re-
gardlng the time of opening light
weights. A'woolen goods agent, who
has just returned from a trip among
Maine manufacturers, says that they
are aVerse to showing goods before
August !. and he believes that four or
five commission houses may start a
movement to prevent general OMEN
ing before that date
An enterprise which seems to be of
material advantage to fishermen along
the eastern coast, has been undertaken
at Dyer's Bay. J. +. Duguo of Glou-
cester, Mass. is erecting, at an outlay
of $4,000, wharf and buildings for re-
ceiving and curing fish, the location Of
which, is on the Stanley Point side, on
posite the Land Company's wharf at
Petit Menan Point. Material is being
collected for the building. which will
be 100 feet long, and the wharf of the
same length will also be covered with
a roof