Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-07

Seventy five dozen brooms were
shipped from the State prison, Thurs
day
w. I. Morrow, pant manufacturer Of
PlttSfield, is rushed with orders from
Boston customers.
Form $50 to POO bushels of herring a
day have been taken from the Rodiclh
weir. Frenchman's bay. recently.
The Monsoon Burmah Slate Co. of
Portland discharged sixteen men April
80 and will only work light crew until
business improves.
Wilton, in Franklin county, is to have
new S-set WOODEN mill, large new
store and several new houses built this
season.
H. c. Sharp & Co. of Monticello. have
about three million to drive this year.
as they had to leave about $50 900 on
| the yards.
The Hanover correspondent of the
| Rumford Falls Times says that W. l..
| blanchard has recently come out of the
| woods with 1900 pounds of spruce gum.
| E. X. Wilson of Cherryfell is re-
| ceiVing large orders for sardine cases
to be shipped to Boothbay Harbor and
for packing cases for other classes of
canned goods from other sections Of
| the State.
MIR. Shannahan, the Portland con-
| tractor. is loading derricks and tools on
to Il schooner to be taken to Lubec. Mr..
! Shannahan has the contract to build n
| big dam for the company now at work
extracting gold from salt water. The
| dam will cost about 100000.
| The Tracadie Lumber Co.'S drive Of
$3.50 900 feet on the Tracadie river. New
| Brunswick, arrived at their boom in Is
| days. on an average. 20 men We're EN-
| ployed and the cost was /. cents per
| 1900 feet. The company is composed
entirely of Bangor men.
The crew at the Monsoon pond quarry
owned by the Monson Maine Slate Co,
after giving the company ten days no
| tice quite work Saturday. April 30. un-
til something shall he done toward pay
| ing the five months back wages which
| are now due them.
The FIRST new logs which will arrive
/ in Bangor will be those in the Malta
Wamkcag. and first East Branch drives.
! due about May 20 In the East Branch
| Will come about 1900, 600 feet OF last
years logs belonging to Cornelius Muir
ply and LaWlor, which We're hung up
| last spring.
4 Milbridee correspondent writes
| that the new syndicate is to CONSOLE
| date the packing of sardnes This year.
| According To some accounts about nine
of the factories will not he run, as ii
VIII be cheaper to put the fish up in
ether factories. The WOrkmen will,
however. suffer no Inconvenience as the
men will he transferred to other shops
so the closing Of one factory means an
addition to others.
The WOODEN business seems to be in
an unsettled state in Piscataquis
county at present. The Guilford mill is
practically shut down and the orders at
the SangerVille mills are all small. The
| SangerNille mill owners think 1t is only
| Temporary and has been caused by the
uncertainty which has prevailed for
| some time and that there Will soon De
a demand for the high grade goods
made in their mills.
Following is the number of cases OF
| shoes shipped and the number OF
rounds of leather received by the Au-
| burn shoe factories for the week end
ing May T. 1898 Total number Of eases
shipped $3.50: total weight Of leather re-
! cejyed 1876 400 pounds. Last week bb2l
| cases were shipped ard 2l5,o00 pounds
of leather received. During the CORES
pondine week of last year, 633S cases
were shipped. and 15G110 pounds OF
| leather received.
In many of the wholesale markets
the past week a strong upward ten
dencv has been manifested, says the
| Portland Transcript. Pea beans adj
,arcpd to 81 10 to $50 bushcl i'll caI
! lots. California canned fruits are de
| cidedly higher and some packers nave
| withdrawn. Tomatoes advanced IL
cents a dozen, but no change reported
in price of corn. although the market IS
! firm. Canned baked beans advanced
during last week from 10 to 20 cents a
dozen in some markets. The sardlne
| combination has not developed fully as
vet. but the market is stronger can
ned pineapples advanced - cents a
dozen.
At the Leather Works in Bridgton a
| brisk business is being carried on.
| More than 100 dozen skins are being
tanned and finished daily. most ct
which are made into black leather the
balance into plain russell. All the skins
are sheepskins. nearly all of them ma
tive. though a small proportion comes
from Australia and New Yea land. MOST
| of the stock is fine goods. and is MADE
into mems and womens shoes. The
. | is IonnUGld the OF ltI
grades are kid madras, etc The busl-
ness sales for the month of March were
the largest for :he same period since
the works were started UP again, some
two years ago.
The big lumber mill at Redinstoh
started operations. Monday Two
weeks ago Mr. W. P. Eaton feared the
! war would necessitate an lrdehhlte
shut down. yet very recent affahSt
ments prevent such calamity Tor the
settlement, which is entirely employed
in one wa or another by the Jumper
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