Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-19
Maine Industrial News.

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The coat factory at Cornish Is re
ceiving large number of orders which
| will necessitate a large increase in its
| force.
Austin g. Co.'S mill. Phillips. is run
| ming full blast now on an order OF l..
900 gross of spools. II will take them
| nearly "A month to fiji this order for
| the Clark Thread Company.
+. W. Carleton of Woolwich. has
been awarded the contract TO build two
| truss bridges of fifty feet each and a
| roadway go feet long at Damariscoyc
| for the use OF the Life Saving Station
The work viii occupy about three
weeks
The corn shop at Newport, will prob
ably pack more corn than any other
Of the Portland Packing Co.'S plants
during the season soon to be inaugu-
rated. 1t is not expected now that the
factory will be started up before Sept.
l. w. f.. Rackliffe. superintendent is
Of the opinion that the crop will be
fully up to the average. If not a little
better.
Everett Libby of Burnham has in
terested FoXcroft parties to come 10
that town to locate 4 shirt factory and
| in short time the work of getting the
large building ready for them will begin.
and work will be pushed along until
the building Is in shape for them to
begin work in. The new company will
employ about 80 hands, and will be
very much of an addition to Burnham
There is likelihood that the mica
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ton, will soon be in operation. Mr.
Wilson Tisdale, 1t is stated. has I'M
dertaken to form a company TO open
up the property with view to getting
to work as soon as possible. Mr.. Rey-
nolds has lately contracted to furnish
Portland parties with large quantities
of quartz and has several carloads
ready for shipment as soon as the rail-
road company shall erect a platform at
Walkers Pit.
+. W. Howe and J. NJ. Johnson Of
Rumford Falls. have purchased one
hundred acres OF woodland of E. w.
simmons, and one hundred acres of
stumpage adjoining il and will cut 500
cords of wood between now and De
cember. SIX men are now at work on
the job and six more are soon % be put
on. Howe & Johnson will also cut
some 500. 900 of spruce. pine and hem
lock on the same territory. The pulp
mill at Riley will probably have the
spruce. while the hemlock will be used
in the construction of piers in the An
droscoggin from Riley up the river.
which the International Paper Co. are
to construct. The pine will probably
be landed at Stubb's mill. sawed and
shipped at Portland.
The Pike & Davis wharf and smoke
house being built at Lubec, and which
are of immense proportions, will soon
be completed. The smoke house has a
capacity for smoking over 10000 boxes
of medium herring, says the Herald.
Could the pioneers in this business of
20 years ago. see the mighty change
that is being wrought in it now they
would be filled with wonder and as
constituent. The largest of their smoke
houses then had but ten bays, and
each bay would hold about $50 boxes
of herring-true. the size of the boxes
were from eight to ten times larger
than the present ones. they were reg
ulated in size by state law-and held
about one-half bushel. The business
was done then in the most primitive
manner and the wonder now is that it
paid as well as it did. Now these old
smoke houses. with the early modes of
curing herring, have given place to the
immense plants which extend along
the lower side of Water street from
near Gem Rock to Delesdernier Point.
Some of these plants are provided with
the latest labor saving machinery. such
as gas engines. steam pumps. holsters,
&C. and all the work is done in the lat
est improved manner. The change
from the old to the new seems marvel
Gus, and shows that it has brought
prosperity to the town and made 1t the
centre of this industry in the United
States.