Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-19
Maine Industrial News.

| There is talk of starting a corn canning
factory in Cherryield or Deblois.
| Marsh & Aver of Old Town, will cut
two and one-hah million feet OF lumber
| this season.
John Suitter and John Faulkner have
started in the juniper ship knee business
at Monticello.
A large amount of pulp wood is being
| shipped through Lewiston for the mills
near the coast.
| The Pickett Bros. of Mapleton are put
ting up eight road machines to be used by
lumbermen in the woods.
Fosters toothpick mill, Strong, which
| has been shut down for a long time, has
once more started operations.
Two hundred cords of hemlock bark are
| being hauled to the station at Pressure
Isle from the S. S. Stless lot in CastN
Hill.
The cheering report comes from Harri-
son that there are but few in that village
out of employment and but few vacant
| tenements.
| d. J. Began, superintendent Cmbagog
mill. Livermore Falls, has resigned and
has accepted a position in Norwich.
Conn. in a paper mill.
| The firm of Hiram Moore 4 Son of Mad.
ison. is one of the very successful con-
Germs doing business around Moosehead
lake. Their cut will be 100000.
| A. w. Smith & Sons of Steuben. have
men at work cutting 200 cords of hard
so are to get stock for a million slaves.
Several of the granite quarries at Ston-
| ington are closed for an indefinite period.
owing to the scarcity of vessels to trans
port the same to places where contracted.
II. c. Sharp & Co. of Monticello have
their shingle mill in running order and in
tend to run it day and night all winter
giving employment to quite a number of
men.
John l.. Matthews of Phillips. who is
q fnr hVnt har A
Matthews. says he expects to get IN
enough more to make the number 1000 for
the years business.
The coat shop of S. w. Carr & Son,
season. There are thirty-five girls en-
ployed there, and about 200 alpaca coats
are manufactured daily. The kindlng
wood factory is running full blast.
The Linn Wooden Co.. of Hartland. has
purchased the machinery in seven-set
mill at Lakeport. N. H.. and r. Varney.
boss carder: employed at the mill of the
company. Melvin Williams, and others
cry ready for shipping to Hartland
where it will be installed in the new mill
built few years ago.
The worsted department of the Sanford
mills has more orders than ever before in
its history and is running to its full ca
pacity day and night. The plush mill,
which recently furnished the car plush for
the mikado's private train. has received
ncdNy OfueTS IoT equipment OF several
Japanese street railroads and the Japan
csc market seems likely to prove an i'm
portant factor in its trade.
The report from the Penobscot lumber
ing section is that there is just enough
snow and that business is going on well.
the only drawback being that there IS
considerable sickness in the different
camps. One firm that employs about 10
men has II sick in camp. In crews of ~
to Is six or seven are reported as sick.
From several of the camps men have
come out who were suffering from the
prevailing epidemic.
laundering operations in Piscataquis
county are not progressing as rapidly as
have not been very large thus far i'm the
season. About twenty-five cars have been
loaded at Foxcroft station which is ratn-
er small when 1t is known that George
'abson alone hopes to load about three
hundred. Some other small shipments
will also be made from this station.
Business is somewhat dun at Ashland at
present as is usual when most Of the men
are i'm the lumber camps. The usual
amount of lumber Is being landed, and an
estimate is made that nearly $4,000. 900 will
be iioated down the Aroostook season the
coming spring. The cut of spruce will
fall short Of last season. but will be more
than made up for In the extra cut of CO.
dar. ". A. Vinal has in operation on
Big Machias some 16 horses and IS
men. Il. 4. Berce has a force of is men,
and crew of 80 men. NJ. Mentally ~
horses, A. Trafton Is horses, Bon Acken
Is horses. These firms are landing on
what is known as Big Machias while AT
the head of Aroostook river John McCon-
nell intends landing 5,OOOO 900 spruce and
cedar. The Ashland Manufacturing Co
are having some 100000 cut under con-
tract by different firms.
Ellsworth. which is the Headquarters
for slaves in New England, has shipped
during the past season about 20 900 900
slaves. WhitcOmb, Haynes & Co. have
shipped about l4.WOO and Charles j.
average seasons work. One of Whit
comb. Haynes 4 Co.'S vessels, the schoon-
er.. Henrietta A. Whitney" Capt. w. +.
seven round trips to Rondout. n. Y. car
rryinS out 4.loW.WW slaves, and bringing
back to Boston 1ai00 barrels of cement.
This Is the largest seasons business ever
a"h" IN this me ny an Ellsworth vessel