Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-24

/ The firm has hauled out enough lops
/ to last through next spring and unt,,
the arrival Of new logs
The clam industry Is claimin- ~.
attention of not Il few BrooksyilIe and
Sargentvile people. There are severaI
dealers who purchase in large o,1anti-
ties and ship TO Boston for bait. G. I.
Wescott and Messrs. Gray and Tan,ey
are among the men who are making !.
success of buying in the western sec
| ton of Hancock county.
John Levitt 4 co. of Portland ara
| doing a fine business in salt mackereI
which they have been putting m in
kits for family use. They have beer
making a speciality of these goods this
summer and the demand for them has
| grown so that they are receiving or
derS from all over the State OF Maine
Operations are still in progress al
the feldspar quarry. Bowdoinham. and
about - Italians are at work there. 1t
is quite n sum to mention when one
| says 81 100000 but more than that in
value of feldspar has been taken out
Of that quarry and now there's re-
port that James Purington is to opei:
the quarry on his place.
| This year is to he record breaker
| at the works of the South Paris Manu-
featuring Co. The orders are big ana
keep coming. The most of the orders
are for wheel goods. Last year.,
short winter left many dealers over
stocked with sleds. Therefore but a
small supply of sleds are to be made
up.
The Dana Warp Mill Company.
Westbrook. have 1000 spindies runninc
in their mill No. >. the old gingham
mill. In Il few weeks they will have
lG.10o spindles running in this mill
Men from the Mason machine shop
Taunton. Mass have just set up one
pair mules Of 1000 spindles, ana men
from the SaCo Il Pettee machine shops
are setting up four new rowing frames
y new industry has been estab-
lished ut Egypt this Year. which bids
fair 70 be a remuneratiye on". 1t is
tire gathering Of eel grass. 50 called Il
coarse grass which grows in the mud
of rivers and can only be harvested at
low water. T.. &. Durham had sew
rral men gathering this grass during
the summer months. and spreading it
in the fields for drying. After this
process it was bound in bundles ana
shipped 70 Massachusetts, where it is
in demand ut 4 good figure. for the
uS,' Of manufacturers.
W. II. Amcs 4 60 Of DiNticld. who
have q JOB Of clearing some 30 acres
on Spcckled mountain in Peru, are to
build small saw mill on the side Of
the mountain for the purpose Of saw
ing the timber. \ - II. +. boiler
weighing six tons. for the mill. arrived
at the station. Tuesday it was put
on Sk,lS six yuk. Of oxen and three
pair of horses We're attached. but af
ter considerable work il was only
moved Il few rods. Later il was lacked
ul placed on wheels ana moved u its
destination.
1t sect ms that The spool factory III
FoNcroft. which has recently come un-
Ger = nel, management will not start
until next summer. The owner. John
NcGrr@or Of Lincoln. will make cN-
t"nsivr repairs about the factory anu
Uut nrN, roofs on the sheds. In tn"
factory new :loOrS must be laid. The
On machinery taken out ana replaced
by new ara improved and very likely
4 new ROOF will he put on the factory
!. j. Folsom Of FoNcroft Will saw
birch for Nc,;icGor and thcr" II
practically no limit To the amount he
may saw this winter.
Arrangements have been made Win
tie railroad company u carry wheat
by freight to The new roller mn AZ
linuIton tor seven cents per buSh"i
and surplus wheat will II" bought OF
the farmers on the western pi;tn-
Western miller of Iar-" experience mas
been engaged to run the mlt ANA IL"
,ronouncrS ArooStook wheat far Su-
i,.rior 10 western wheat. and the pros
r4,t is that Aroostook county VIII pui
t,r j f.v thousand barrels extra inns
var lust to see what II Is ik''
Probably there are more buShclS !" llr
acre. raised there than in any othrr
nluce on earth. and great lndcStrH
;,ppearS to 10 developing when WITT
heip materially in the prosperity ~ the
farming community.
The mills ~ the Ashland MlS- '"
III Ashland on the .ArooSto"k river.
closed Wednesday for the winter
,rh,.s. mills have been running con-
StantlN since last ftDluilE' "i'' -
.vc.rtior az Il few weeks lost on ac-
.,nnt of ,lrouth. and the output oil
lumber has been about the hAahi
uuantitv \ good stock of logs 'e
mains ON hand for early saving III
1ooI IN the docks and on the wharf lh
Iopror the Ashland Co. has about
!. 500 600 feet of lumber, part Of Whlch
Min b. shipped this fan and the re-
mainder next spring. Nearly al ~"
,u-rivrr saw mills are now closed =.
4. Thatcher * Son are still running
their mill at Milford. and tNpec' -
Continue saving until Dee. !.
\ Elaine correspondent writes "a
hor.rS for the woods ere in good &c
r,.nd and wages are higher than us
ual Good men are difficult to get
I-suaIIv ut this season of the year men
rro,,, across in New Brunswick come
+his v.ay to work in the lumber WoouS
durinc the winter season. out tiieN
.rn not coming this fall. and many
~ arr own men who formerly spent
The winter in the lumber camps are re-
manning mt home Oh the farms 'ah
road ties are in good demand Ut S"pu
prices and considerable business VIII
IL done in that line by those VINO ar
so fortunate as to have Il ccoar swamp