Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-04

MAINE INDUSTRIES.

|
ganized in Bath, now has over 25
members.
Inc boX factory of C. d. Presse,
Bangor, has received new machiner,
within the past few days, which in
creases the capacity of that establish
ment from 5000 to 10000 boxes per day
a sheet of stone was cleared las
week from the quarry OF John l.. Goss
Critch island. Stonington, in one soil,
dock, in which there were 10000
tons by measurement
"A large block of stone from Mors,
island quarry. Stonington, weighing 2
tons was shipped to Troy, N. Y, to b,
used as fountain. A number of GU
stone were also shipped at the sam.
time.
The Harding & Jordan Shoe Co. OF
New Sharon are getting a good start
They employ from IL 30 Is hands The
capacity of the pegging machine is
from five to six hundred pair of shoes
per day.
1t is rumored that there is a prospect
| of another sawmill being built in Avon
| where the Dill mill was burned. 1t is
understood that the owners of the land
offer to give the mill privilege if a mill
can be built
Hiram Drawn of Dover is doing the
stone foundation work for the extensive
additions to the Portland Packing Co. =
buildings. One of these additions is &c
be SOx54, the other 30x50 besides a large
boiler room. The business has formerly
operated four machines; next year will
see seven in operation.
The biggest single concern doing
business in the Maine woods this year
is that of Cunliffe Bros of Fort Kent.
They will cut 100000 feet of timber
on the Allagash, employing 800 men
and more than so horses. They hayn
lI5 men in the woods and with the re-
mainder of the crew will occupy ten
camps.
Charles NJ. Stuart has sold the pine.
hemlock and part of the hardwood
timber on his place at West Gray TO
Frank Douglass of Gray Corner for
$1,000. The timber will be taken to Mr..
Douglass mill at Gray Corner for
manufacture. George Hunt has also
sold timber lot of so acres to Mr.. E.
p. Foster recently for about $4,000.
The prospect for a good season in the
Union river woods continues to be good
There are from 30 to 75 men now in the
woods, and crews are gradually being
increased The streams have been
cleared out and dams repaired in an
ticipation of large drives in the spring.
and are in better shape than for years.
Ellsworth American.
The Standard Sardine Company.
PASSPORT, have been putting up some
extra fine sardines during the past few
weeks for shipment to the western
market. The fish are packed in plain
cans with brass labels and encased in
neat little paste board boxes. This a
new idea and one which ought to be
productive of good results.
Land Agent Charles Z. Oak of
Caribou. has recently been in Cherry
field. comforting with parties for a
large contract of pulp wood for the
mills of South Gardiner. Mr. Oak is
DESTROYS of securing 1900 cords in
Washington county in contract lots of
1000 cords. one-half of the quantity to
be shipped by rail this winter. and the
remainder by water next season.
B. c. Jordan of Alfred. is shipping an
order of 10000 feet of three-inch pine
flooring and roofing plank. for the
great pulp mill at Millinocket, 100 miles
below Bangor. This order amounts to
more than $4,000. and it looks like car
rying Goals to Newcastle, to ship lum-
Der from York county into the Maine
woods. Mr.. Jordan was the only lum-
Der dealer in New England, who had
that amount of seasoned lumber.
Since the beginning of the saving
season in April. 20 carloads of edgings
amounting to 1920 cords. have been
shipped from Cherryfield on the Wash
ington County Railroad to Boston wood
dealers. The cost of transportation on
the average is $24 a car, each car carry
| ing 16 cords, the freight rate being
regulated by weight. The market price
| of this refuse product of the mills fig
ures closely at 81 a cord, from which
the shippers realize an extra profit of
IS cents a cord, owing to the improved
facilities the railroad affords for reach
ing the markets.
The Maine & New Hampshire Gran
its Co. is now furnishing the stone for
the David G. Leggett building IN
Brooklyn, n. Y. 1t will be IA stories
high and cost about 100000 1t will be
built of the pink granite from the Red
stone, n. H., quarry, and it will re-
uuire IS 900 cubic feet of the stone. An
other smaller but much more elaborate
structure is in process of erection in
Hoboken. 1t is being built by the New
Jersey Trust Co. and will be made Of
white granite from the North Jay
quarry. This company is also furnish
ing the stone for the magnificent resi-
dence Of Senator William A. Clark, th5
silver king of Montana. This residence
is being built in New York city, at me
corner of Fifth avenue and Seventy
seventh street, and will cost wkel
completed about $2,O0O,OOO. Paysor
Tucker. president Of the company. ma:
recently opened an office in Boston, ant
will hereafter remain in persona
charge of that end of the business.
Efforts looking to the establishing
of q wooden factory or some other eX
tensive industry upon one or more .
the magnificent water powers on th'
river at Pembroke, now unoccupleo' az
;c hpppd Will pNentu