Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-08
Maine Industrial News.

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The East Corinth canning factory Is
making 5000 cans daily. Nearly all OF
the buildings are completed.
Work in the Bethel chair-shop is in
creasing and the conditions are very
fiattering for a prosperous season.
About $50 men who are working on
| the railroad lifting the track between
Boyd lake and Dover are boarding in
Milo.
About 5000 cases Of sardines five
carloads) We're shipped to Boston by l.
S. S. Co.'s steamer during the past
week from Eastport.
AT one Auburn shoe factory they
have been cutting 500 sides of leather
per day of late. Most of the sides
weigh 200 pounds.
George S. Pettingill Of Lewiston, Is
burning a kiln of 100000 bricks. He
is also making active preparations for
another kiln of 100000.
The 25 new cottages to be built by the
Standard Company, at North Lubec
are rapidly going up. The cottages
will be 12x22 feet, contain four rooms
and be prettily painted.
At the Warren shoe factory about $50
hands are employed, and there is work
enough at present to run full time.
This shop pays into the community
about $4,000 year, chiefly for labor.
N. F. Trefethen of South Portland,
who is in the lobster business in Port
land. is building a large lobster pound
at New HarbOr. 1t makes the sixth
pound in Lincoln county and the cost
of it will be about $4,000.
H. c. Sharp & Co. of Monticello. are
doing fine business in their mills this
spring. Lumber is in good demand
and the mills are running to their full
est capacity. The shingle mill cut 60
thousand every day. an average of 10
thousand to each machine.
w. H. Holmes of PASSPORT, has built
a new wharf at the South End, Just
north of his factory recently sold to
the Sea Coast Packing Company, and
erecting a building 40xS0 feet, with a
large shed on the south side to be used
as a fish stand.
Work is booming at the wood turn
ing shop of r. l.. Mitchell. Skowhegan.
At present they are completing an or
der of 1000 lawn chairs and have an
other order for 5000 more. They are
shipped to England from Boston by
the Cunard line.
William B. Holway is bark peeling
on township 81 and Odber Smith on
No. 81. They each had a crew of about
a dozen men. For several years past
there has been no margin on hemlock,
but under the present prices it pays to
manufacture this kind of lumber.
The Aroostook farmer who has hay
in his barn is now rushing it to the
Boston market where it brings some
thing like SIG per ton. One man had
500 tons and he has sold nearly all of 1t
at that figure. His net profit is about
s. per ton.
George A. Welch of Machiasport. has
been engaged as manager of one OF tn
new sardine factories at North Lubec,
belonging to syndicate No. 2. which
factory is to adopt the use of the new
roll top can. thus doing away with the
service of the can makers.
1t is to be hoped that the mills and
shoe factories and other industries of
Maine will join in the exhibition of
national exports to open in Philadel-
phia September Il. Lewiston and Au-
burn factories are already sending cot
ton goods and shoes abroad. One Au-
burn shoe factory has quite Cuban
trade.
The Pioneer MILL Pittsfield. seems to
have a plenty of business at present
and as result two crews are now be-
ing employed in the spinning and card
ing departments of the mill. The night
crew went to work Monday night for
the first time. 1t is understood that
the mill has all the work it can do up
to September l.
A large fertilizing plant is soon to be
erected at North Lubec by the pro-
motors of one of the prominent sardine
syndcates here, which will be of con-
siderab BILE value to the working people
there in connection with the two new
ly constructed can making plants and
the several sardine canning factories
now operated along the shores. Many
buildings have been erected for the
employees and others are to be put up
soon by the syndicates.
Hugh O'Brien of Brewer. has fires
under his third kiln of brick for this
season. 1t is a caution the way the
brick are being turned out this season
in Brewer. Some seasons the first
kiln is just about ready for burning at
this time of year and then the re-
of the season is spent in max
ing another kiln which is usually held
over until the following spring before
being sold. With the brick all sold and
the parties waiting for them it is
different, however.
Cooper Brothers, Newport, are en-
ploying as large a force of hands as
can possibly work to good advantage.
The firm is loading three cars. one for
Guelph, Ontario. one for Binghamton,
n. Y, and one for Kalamazoo. Mich.
Quite a number of carloads of logs
have recently arrived at the landing
used near Camp Benson and it has
been intimated that the firm if bust
ness would warrant and stock should
be obtainable would run the veneer
mill through the winter months as well
as during warm weather.
Georges River mill, Warren. is at
present well supplied with orders from
its Boston and New York agencies.