Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-28
Maine Industrial News.

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Fred Chandler of Abbot is cutting a
hundred cords of white birch this winter
and hauling To Guiltord.
&. F. Thomas. superintendent, Of the
Union Shoe Manufacturing COMPANY.
Ellsworth, has resigned.
About 10000 logs were sawed at Ma
chias ana about $4,000 at Whtneyv,iic
during the season of 1897.
At present there are about $50 m~n
employed in the pulp and paper mills
at Brewer in both day and night crews.
There are As employed in the twinc
mill at West Kennebunk, which is run
ming full time. The average pay is Il
per day
Charles +. Scammon of Deering. WA
start up his skewer factory at Morrills
in q few days to fill large orders from
the West.
w II. Jones has resigned his position
as superintendent of the Eastern Manu-
featuring Co. at South Brewer. and will
leave Bangor,
George A. Jones of South Washing
ton. has cut and yarded 10000 feet Of
hemlock logs, yarded 81 cords of bark.
and cut % cords of hard wood.
w. II. Miller of North Union. does Il
very large business in the manufacture
of lime casks He makes $1,000 ;,Afut.
Nv for the Cobb Lime Company.
Foster & Dolley of Rumford Falls.
have recently partitioned off portion
Of the upper part Of their mill for Il
wood turning room. says the Times.
II. 4. Edwards of Caribou, has re-
Gently made contract to furnish $40.
900 railroad sleepers. This means quite
a sum of money To be ,Xpen@pf, in lhot
town.
l. n. Brackett of Cornish. is doing Il
rushing business at his clothing fac
tory He is turning out about 1000
coats Il week and is giving employment
to a large number OF hands
Among the recent orders received by
Fay & Scott Of Dexter. is II t5-inch swing
PATTERN makers lathe. to 80 to Paris.
Franco. The lathe is the largest bunt by
the firm and is "A fine machine.
A crew Of men are at work at tn
Peavy cantdog stock factory on Young
brook The hardwood is being hauled
to the mill and 10000 stocks will be
turned out during the winter.
Messrs. Gibbs Il Dain, the Lewiston,
window sash manufa cturers who Were
burned out not long ago. viii erect on
the site of the old mill a large. modern
and perfectly equipped factory for
their business. They win employ ahult
20 men.
The property al North Haven, owned
by the heirs of ". Is. Lewis Bros,
which has been used as a canning fac
tory for many years, is reported by the
Opinion to have been sold to DR.. c. G.
Weld of Boston, who has a cottage n
Iron Point.
The Johnson & McIntire mill at Nor
way Lake is doing a big business
About II hands are employed. OK
800 cords Of white birch will be use.
his season in the manufacture OF
spool strips besides large quantities 81
oak. spruce. etc.
Nannah Chute x Company of WIZ
SLOW Mills. have started up their mills
making slaves. headings, shingles ana
boards. and are running with fu
crew of ten men They have plenty pI
orders, and have COO cords of staVt
, and heading stock in the woods, Whiri
teams are hauling TO the mills
The Haskell silk Mill Concern o.
Westbrook have about All they can d
10 keep up with the increasing demanc
for their products. 1t is understood
that % looms are to be placed in the SC
called buck MIL of the old West
brook Manufacturing Company To en-
able the Haskell Company t. keep u!
With their work,
Joseph \. Ward of Alilbrid2e, who :.
g.
gus. and adjacent bays viii introduc,
new feature in the buSiGs - next sea
son. Mr. Ward has lately closed =
contract with T.. w Wallace for -,
building Of a smack To BE- equipped
with an eight horse power gasoline en-
ginc. The dimensions Of the craft AZ,
IS feet over all with eight feet beams
G. H. Merrill x Company have bought
1000 cords of birch to be manufactured
into spoolS the coming year and }. =
Harlow has about the same amount i''
his MILL \ very large amount Of pop
lar and hard dry wood are being Shin
ped from stations along the +. n K. +
Railway. in this vicinity making buSl'
ness for every available man and hori'
in this community. writes DlNhe't
correspondent
During the month of December Mail
agcr II. G. Dunton Of Blanchard y
Twitchells saw mill. Rumford Falls
managed To have his crew saw oNr1
200 600 feet of long lumber. liH.m'
clapboards and 63".o"o !atheS Fro.
this work they sold "A carload OF saw
dust to the clectro-Chemical mill. h.
sides keeping their furnaces golE"
they also produce about II cords :"
four foot cdgin@s and slabs not suitable
for laths and about ten cords Of sh"r
wood per day.
Charles Cooley of Exeter, has tax i
Il contract to furnish 2h,ooo dozcp 4"
handles for y. +. Turner If st. ~
bans. who runs the shovel andl" far
tory there. Shovel handles were never
in such demand as at the present um"
Several million handles will be turnr
uI; nj that factory this Year. The find
ing of gold in Alaska. has mad" quiz
"A demand fur ShnIcl handles. and Il &
expected that a million shuNels will 10
shipped To that section during the ncN