Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-10
Maine Industrial News.

Maine Industrial News.
The granite trade in Aroostook coun-
ty bids fair to boom this summer.
Sixty men at work here" is the
cheerful word which comes from Clark
island.
H. r. Passmore & Co. are planning
q, 600 feet Of pine decks for vessels be
ing built by Kelley, Spear & Co., at
Bath.
Carpenters are busily engaged in
planking the steel practice vessel
Chesapeake at the Bath Iron Works.
The work requires great care.
Hodgdon Brothers have driven the
spikes for wharf at Boothbay Har-
Dor. at the head of which they will
build an ice house.
a new schedule of prices has been
adopted in the Warren shoe shop. The
prices for work has been reduced some
what all around.
The wooden factory at oxford is still
running night and day. 1t is said this
unusual rush will continue as long as
there is sufficient water.
Critchett, Sibley & Company shoe
factory in Belfast, is rushed with or
ders and the crew are daily working
over time in order to keep up with the
rush.
The work Of laying the pavement
on Main street, Auburn. from the
bridge over the Grand Trunk to the
brow Of the hill Will probably begin
TIL, ~. H.,
job.
brigham & Smith of Columbia. are
doing a big business in the manufac-
ture Of cask heads They have a day
and night crew working, and turn out
5000 daily. About 20 carloads will be
shipped from the Columbia station this
spring.
John l.. Goss of Stonington, is one Of
the busiest granite men in the State
Last month he shipped $500 tons of
stone, a record which exceeds any
month his quarry has ever known.
Mr.. Goss is having lot filled in at the
mead of the new steamboat wharf and
will build n warehouse. which will be
used for storing coal.
a new boiler, weighing 10 tons. is
being placed in the corn factory of the
Portland Packing Company at Buck
field. The work of getting it from the
railroad station was a laborious one,
as no trucks of sufficient strength to
support it could be found in town and
it had to be rolled on stringers nearly a
quarter of a mile, taking several men
two days.
At the Goddard brick yard in Dur
ham work is rushing A new field has
been opened up recently and a big lot
of bricks will be put out this season.
The last load in the contract with Rev
Frank Sanford for the wooden build
ing has been delivered, but it is under
stood that this does not close the con-
tract.
The drives are small on Machias
river this year. About 100000 feet in
Old Stream drive is now in the boom
Less than 3,000,000 feet is in the drive
now in Main river. which will be in
creased 1000, 900 feet by Crooked river
drive which Clark & Gardner are using
their best efforts to get. G. Sullivan's
small boom of logs, about 400 NJ
brought from the fourth lake, are be-
ing suiced through third lake dam.
There seems to be an abundance of
herring coming in to keep the Iubec
factories that commenced work May
10TH busy The village is full to over
flowing of people drawn from the sur
rounding country by the good wages
offered and paid by the factories
Among the most busy class of men,
however, are the house carpenters who
seem to have more than they can
handle.
It is said that Z. T. Burrows of
Portland, may be president of an as
ISOLATION for the manufacturers Of car
shades. which is likely to be formed
soon in this country. This would not
interfere with the manufacture of
window screens at the Portland fac
tory The various litigations over
patents Of car shades has been very
costly. one object of the combination
would be to do away with this.
The Berlin Mills Company has leased
of the Boston * Maine Railroad the
piece of property beginning at 81 and
extending to 315 Commercial street or
from where the tracks cross the street
near the 3. & NJ freight shed to High
street. Portland. The Mills Company
is to make great change in the APP
pearance of the plot of land by estab-