Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-09
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

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Geo. w. Stacey, the Blanchard lum-
herman, has secured the Eveleth saw
| mill at Shirley and designs to saw .
| 100000 this winter,
Richmond Murch and others of West
| Trenton, are doing quite a clam bust
| ness, sending large quantities to the
canning factory at Southwest Harbor.
| The shingle mill of Conant q Carr of
Old Town, has been shut down for the
season The mill has done big sea
sons work saving between 100000
and 1S,oOO0O0 shingles. The mill will
be started again in March.
| G.. l.. Adams of Guiford, has con-
tracted to cut 1900 cords Of fir, spruce
ana pine Tor the Jordan Lumber co.
10 be used in the manufacture of box
shocks. The cut will be Shipped to Old
| Town by rail.
Hillard Shoppee Of Beddington, has
now 80 men engaged in the woods this
winter and reports a good business.
he has sent hundreds of logs from the
sides Of Humpback mountain though a
| slulce reaching over a half-mile in
| length.
Business at the Maine Red Granite
| Co.. Red Beach, is booming Hardly
| a public building is now erected in any
part or the country that does not con-
tain in its composition some of the
| handsome stones from this now widely
| known concern.
Business at the three clothing manu-
factories in Brooks is good at the
present time, the whole Of them being
run on full time and with full force
of hands. They all have enough orders
TO keep them running for u number Of
months and the prospects Of the bust
| ness We're never better than they ar.
| at this time.
Messrs. Whitcomb, Haynes K CO.,
Of Ellsworth Fails, have quite an
amount Of slaves and heading at their
Jonesboro mill for shipment this sea-
son. A portion Of il or about four YES
sci loads viii 60 10 Boston ana the
other farther west, to New York and
Philadelphia. Schooners j. NJ. kenne-
dy and Catherine have been chartered
for the purpose.
II is stated that one of the leading
Gamers of sardnes in Washington
county. is arranging to put up the fish
next season in a new patent. sanitary
can. that has been tried and found per
fect IN every way. This will he a large
saving in solder, acid and the many
employees who handle the tin from the
time ii enters the factory in sheets. up
to the time the fish are ready 10 shin
away.
The mill Of r. Gilmore 4 Son. Of
! &c n 80 "A
through the winter. As soon as the
snow comes, the lumber will be hauled
70 the mill. where it will be sawed.
Charles Gilmore is clearing large
tract of land near town and from il
will take nearly 100. 600 feet OF pine.
while there will be a large amour; of
cedar and other woods which can ~
sawed into lumber.
The work of putting up the machin-
cry in the new driving room recently
built by the Rowland Pulp 90. of How
land, has commenced. The large add
ton TO the mill, 200 feet long by near
ly 30 feet wide. will be used entirely
for drying the pulp. This Will effect a
great saving in freights, for. whereas
the pulp now shipped is about 90 per
cent. water, after going through the
| drying room, will be about IS per cent.
dry. This saving. together with the
advance in price of pulp. will add ma
terially to the profits of the company.
About Al tons is the daily output of
the mill. though one week they put out
an averdge of very nearly AZ tons per
day..
The weolen business is very good
i in Dover ahtl FoXcroft Mayo's mill
tswiAcA'has. run continually in spite of
T066ar6 times has more orders than
/ az handled and the spindles are
A<yVHEpg - hours in every day. except
! Sunday Last Monday night crew
NaSxpA ON so that now every hour in
| me is utilized. Owing to the great
,den6n.l for men by the lumbermen. ii
4 has been. difficult to secure a full work
4 ing force for the mill. but the force is
growing in size every day now. Since
the American Wooden Co. has con
trolled the Brown wooden mill in
Dover, that too. has been running full
blast and there are orders enough
ahead to keep the mill running for sew
eral months.
| An industry which promises to de-
| Velop into money making venture is
|
dents of PASSPORT. who expect 70 nut
up shredded Goldfish in small boxes
suitable for the retail trade. In ana
about Passamaquoddy bay are count
| less numbers of cod pollock. haddock
| and other valuable members of the
ilnny tribe which are not difficult to
! eaten, and there are several reasons
| why such an article of food could BE-.
put up at profit. Since the cod are
| TO be found in quick time and CHEAP.
fresh from the salt water, the venture
will probably be made in a short time.
1t is also the promoters intention to
begin canning paddock as has been
done with considerable success. az
though very few Gamers have tried |
the experiment in recent years. except |
across the bay, where the fish are pro-
cured cheaper and little earlier than |
when they reach PASSPORT. A suitable
site with deep water and shore priv |
leges has been looked up in the |
western part of the island and the |
next important movement is to erect t