The Portland daily press., 1898-11-03
WAR BOARD AT CINCINNATI.
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD.
The Proposed Paper Mill to be Erected q
Milinocket.

Bangor despatch in Kennebec journal. }
Within the past few weeks several an
nouncements have been made of the build
ing of an immense pulp and paper mill on
the line of the Bangor q Aroostook Rail
road. These reports have been denied by
many people. including those who were
most interested in the deal, as they had
not perfected arrangements SO that they
CO u1d be given out for publication. The
journal man lis able to give the first
complete story Of the great enterprise.
The mill will be located at Millinocket,
and not at Ncrcross as has hesn several
times stated. 1t was always supposed
that when pulp and paper mill was
erscted 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 Penobsnot river some three
miles from the railroad
If mill was erected there it would be
necessary to build a branch Of the railroad
to it and this could not be dons only at q
great expense. The new min will be
erected within a stones throw of the b.
=
the water will be brought through canal
q distance Of about 4 miles from t9uakis
lake. M s3g
There will be natural fall part ofsthe
way, and by erecting q dam at the lower
end of the canal, a l00-fOot head Will be
had, which will give more power than
would be needed to run mill twice the
size of the one to be erected at Millinocket
and this will be she largest pulp and
paper mill in the world. This is not q
wild statement. Ii is a fact The mill
will be much larger than the big mills
owned by the wealthy English 81 Indicate
at Sauit Ste Marie, and which are man
aged by F. H. Clergue. formerly of Ban
gor, and which have been the subject OF
SO many newspaper stories in all sections
| Of the country. nesi.
The company which will build the mill
at Millinocket has placed the handling
of It's affairs in the hands of Garrett
Schenck of kumford Falls, who Is well
known in Name and who Is responsible
for the growth of the little metropolis OF
the western part of the State, and the
many successful enterprises there now in
operation.
The new mill will use between SO, OO0,-
600, and 60, 600, 000, feet of logs each year,
and as there are only about ~, 000, O0O In
The West Branch drive it looks as il
some body else would have chance to sell
logs. The company purchased lts water
power, and enough to control 1t, OF the
Mullen syndicate and Messrs +. II. APP
pleton and $. R. Prentiss OF this city.
The negotiations for this property were
completed in Bangor !, last week, and the
price paid Tor the water power alone was
something like sos. 600:
Ii is estimaed that the biggest part of
the business in the freight department. on
the Bangor q Aroostook Railroad will
come from the erection of this mill. All
of the coal, etc., to be used there will be
brought to bangor and discharged on to
the cars and sent to Mlllinocket. Thous-
ands of carloads Of pulp and paper will
be shipped yearly from the new mill and
greater part OF the pulp will be sent by
vessel from Bangor TO foreign shores. II
Is intended to establish a big foreign
business with this mill.
The new plant is being erected to
"buck" the new pulp and paper trust,
known as the Intern tional Pulp q Paper
Co.. corporation which is pa ing its
president,so it is stated, salary of $s5, DOL
per year.