Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-28

me clam factory at Friendship has
closed for a short time.
All the Rockport kilns are now in full
operation and things are humming.
a. w. Shaws shoe shop at Freeport
has started up with a good lot of or
derS.
The Pioneer mill, Pittsfield, is now
running y hours per week but the
firm is hopeful of a change for the bet
ter soon.
The st. CroiX cotton mill at Midtown
mad the largest pay sheet the last pay
day of any since they began operations
in 1882.
Bradford Bros, the South Portland
spar makers. are very busy filing OF
ders for flag poles. A new departure
for them to any extent
Bath shipbuilders are wondering
when the rise on Manila rope will stop
/ has gone up from five and one-haif
to eight cents. said a prominent build
CT. Saturday morning. and is still ris-
ing.
Some 900 men will soon he employed
at the Canal. North Lubec. The con-
tractors have already got their tools
and machinery on the ground and are
hiring men as fast as they preset t
themselves.
The cotton mill at Calais, having re-
ceived a number of large orders, are
thinking of running the factory three
evenings and Saturday afternoons in
each week, giving the hands an oppor-
tunity of making plenty extra time
,Il1liptr 10 rop1iuc cfIj1t,1pr
BUSINESS is rushing at Cooper's mill
Newport. and an unusually high quail
ity of veneer is being manufactured.
The firm was fortunate in purchasing
their logs for the same and the best
material is now being manufactured
that the mill has ever turned out.
The Mount Waldo Granite Company
have moved two large blocks of granite
Weighing 80 tons each, from the quarry
To their wharf. whore they are to be
cut and shipped to New York to be
used in building a Mansoleum. The
company are looking after some big
contracts and are employing a large
crew.
Georges River mills of Warren. has
shut down until the middle of June and
possibly it may not start up at that
time The product of this mill has al
ways been in such good demand that a
shut down. except for repairs, has been
a thing of rare occurrence. Superin-
tendent Geo. w. Walker, who has just
returned from Boston. reports the mar
ket very dull and business generally
unsettled \ small force is still re
tanned in the mill making samples and
| into Wa typr thinks that If
| business starts up next month it will
| be better than ever.
Sidney Ray of Midway. reports that
| ten million feet of the East Branch logs
| are piled up in jam on Grlndstone
/ falls. with a big head of water behind
/ them. Ray has been employed on one
! Of the West Branch brook drives. bur
quit work a few days ago, bought a
canoe and with companion made the
| trip from the head of Chesuncook lake
| down the West Branch to his home in
| Midway, about 1875 miles, in two days.
! He reports the water at good pltch
! everywhere. Z. \. LaWler of Bene-
! dicta. reports that the East Branch
! logs are in Chamberlain lake or further
| along. all the brook drives having been
| cleared up.
/ Abbott's mill. Dexter, will probably
| shut down. this week, and remain 50
until July LIST, says the Bangor Wing
/ This seems to be necessary OWING 10
! lack OF orders and no desire on the par
| of the. firm to manufacture the goods
and take chances of selling them later
1t may be possible however, that Or
dcrs may be received within lew
days so that at least part OF the ma
chinery may be run. 1t is pfopapie
| that the firm will take advantage OF the
opportunity offered to put in the iou'-
dation for the new mill as the water
can be drawn off the mill pond Wlth"u'
any serious Inconvenience reSultliiS
| from loss of power as would ne 'he
case if the mill was to be run.