Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-02
GROVE ST. SCHOOL
Maine Industrial News.

At the Shaw mill, Bath. about 80, oo9
lumber is being sawed every day.
Lewiston lumber concern bid IN
Wednesday on a contract for 60. 900 tent
pins.
The lumber hauled on Machias river
the past winter amounted to H. 531 90.
feet.
Gould Bros. of Brewer. recently
shipped seven canoes to boat clubs in
the vicinity of Boston.
About 100000 feet of lumber have
been cut on the west branch of Union
river. above Great Pond.
The total cut of lumber on Union
river this year is estimated at about
100000 feet of long lumber and is ,0o(
cords of stave wood.
y correspondent writes that the
pretty village of Steep Falls will boom
with a big Is when that excelsior mill is
completed.
The old Catharine mill at Marion. has
! been leased by Il. l.. Smith. repaired
and refitted at a cost of about $1,000
| and will do Il good business this season
making shocks.
The West Paris Wood Rim Company
is doing a large business with an in
crease of orders. II is now employing
! - men and steadily increasing thcl
/ business With large orders ahead.
/ Mr.. Columbus W. Bisbee of Stephens
! Vile, Va. is cutting the frame for the
/ large fVe-masted schooner to be built
y" shipped to Camden the first of May
! F. w Aver & Co. of Bangor, have
! taken a contract to ship 1o000,000 81
/ deal to England this year 1t will g
| in English craft.
| \. S. Riggs of ChcsterviIle has re-
Gently added to his tannery a new ma
! chine to shave and shower skins. He
says that it will do the work of six
| men. The cost is 5000.
| 1t is rumored that Il forge company il
Bethlehem, Penn. are about to pur-
| chase the equipments of the Easter.
| Forge Company. located at East Dee
ing and remove the plant to Bethlehem
| Penn.
The Rumford Falls Times hears thai
| both the paper company and the sui
phite company are contemplating max
ing some changes in their plant tha
4 will greatly increase their output. This
/ means the employment of more men.
The Pepperell Company. Biddeford. is
engaged on an order for 45 bales of fine
| cotton, Nos As and "a. for a rubber
company to be used in the manufacture
of army blankets for use in the wal
I With Spain.
! ~ H. Fay of Dexter. during a recent
Western business trip, sold 120 tons OF
lathes averaging i'll weight upwards .
four tons. 1t will require severa
months to do the work and there is
good prospect of quite an increase i.
the working force at the shop.
Fred Barron finished hauling logs il
the yard of the Manufacturing Invest
ment Company, Madison. last Thurs
! dav. He has hauled during the pas
winter about 300. 600 from the piles OF
the bank of the river and in the yard
TO do this work he has kept two teams
at work and a crew of five men.
Ayers mills at South Brewer begai
! saving on Tuesday. There is at pres
ent no domestic business. but the mills
! will be busy for some time with ded
orders for shipment to the United
Kingdom Sar2ents mills at Souti
Brewer will start about May |.
The logs of Geo. +. Dole Of Portland
which caused SO much anxiety las
winter to the people of Phillips, have
been coming merrily down the San ~
river for the past few days. The tow
authorities have been on the lookou
! for the drive. fearing jam, but IL nov
seems as though the drive would pas
without mishap.
f. II. and l.. ID. Shepard OF PhliilpS
have received an order for 30,0oo gros
of pill boxes The order will keep IN
mill busy for a year and hall. me.
have found it necessary to put III new
lathes and they are working a crew
| about Is. The boxes are to be shlppe'
to New York. Canada and Austfaha.
The IA stone cutters who came L
1 Jouesboro worked about a week, WEI
notified to work another hour per ga
or leave. and as they belonged l" LII