Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-11
nA11y KrNNrgEc JoURN SATURDAY. FEBRUARY Il 1899

hopeful than for long time past. They
say that present indications are lhat me
coming summer will be the best that the
business has known for a numper OF
Years Hugh OBrien. one of the leading
manufacturers of the city. VIII make
three millions of bricks next summer ana
will use about 1900 cords OF Woou ,a No puIn
them with He is now having 10Y cords
cut in Hudson and 1900 cords III Edding>
ton.
II. e. Evans of York village, brother of
General Manager Evans or the Maine
Central Railroad. returned 70 Iario you
Wednesday, he having previously VS.
tied our village and contractea Tor q
large number of railroad sleepers. mr..
Evans is at the head OF movement 10
establish a pulp mill at Tobique Narrows,
~ r.. where 10000 horse power can De
developed The syndicate comprises cap
italists from New England and New
Brunswick and there Will pc no lack OF
money to make the undertaking success
ful.-Aroostook Republican.
The big saw mill of the Ashland Man
ufacturing Co., at Ashland. whlcn mas
| been shut down since last fall. VIII re-
| sumo operations soon, SAVING logs cut III
| the near vicinity by farmers ana Others
| ana hauled to the mill by rail. These
| logs will keep the mill going until the
drive. containing about z";W"w" Ie eel
| spring The mill has Il saving capacity
OF about 80, 100000 feet IA year me Ash
land Co. have given up their lease OF the
/ Nj. IL.
| preferring to pay wharfage at 10 cents II
M. rather than the rental of $1,000 year.
| The Newport Wooden Company has re-
| ceiyed some good sized orders for heavy
| weights and as a result. the spinning ana
carding departments OF the MN VIII De
! running night and day Just as soon as
men can be engaged for the work a
number of looms are now idle IN the mill
| though the departments above referred
| to have been running over time for the
/ past few weeks and it is probable that
as soon as possible not only all of the
| looms vii. be running during the day but
n portion of them by night Inc increase
| In the number of hands in the spinning
| and Carding departments Will be about
~ and in time there will be an increase
in the weave room.
Business in Island Falls is brisk. owing
to the many men and teams landing
bark at the tannery of Frank Hunt. This
| concern is one of the heaviest III Maine
in the manufacturing of hemlock sole
leather They will place ON their skids
the present winter fourteen thousand
cords of bark. employing some 800 horses
each being in pairs. which requires l5'
! drivers Most of tnS bark was pealed by
day labor and likewise mostly delivered
by teams by the month 1t requires soms
sixty men to care for the bark III the
yard as delivered. which is placed OF
| skids in stacks ranging twenty ieet II
| height This concern has in their en-
ploy at this season of the year over IN
men This includes some 60 employed in
side their tannery establishment. Eacl
day there are tanned or turned out, ~
| sides of leather There are ~ cords oi
| bark ground aiter which the tanning
| substance is leached out, and Is then ear
red on an endless chain to their furnaces
and used as fuel This concern purchase
its hides and after being tanned they are
sold at the firms place of business in
Boston 1t requires four months to tar
Il side of leather.