Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-31

Bath, are accomplishing large
amount Of work including the con-
struction Of two battleship windlasses
for the Union Iron Works, also four of
the largest windlasses the works have
ever made, for William Cramp K Sons.
]. II. Ruggles of South lewiston
who has got out 400 600 feet of lumber
for the Farwell Company at Lisbon.
has had to get zoo feet Of it on the
river bank to float down the stream
when the ice goes out as there is not
snow enough to haul it To Lisbon.
The creamery in the Dana building.
Belfast. is doing a constantly increas-
ing business, and is now handling 800
gallons of cream per day. The product
is all marketed in Boston as cream eX-
cept a small quantity taken by local
merchants.
John r. Geary of Whitneyville, and
crew Of - men ana II horses. who
have been numbering on the Durren
lot for the Machias Lumber Co. have
returned home. Mr.. Geary has had Il
very good winter, having landed about
900 900 feet of timber.
big contract with the Penobscot
Chemical Fibre Co, of Great Works,
agreeing to furnish to that company.
next year, 10000 cords of poplar wood.
1t will be cut along the railroad lines
and shipped over the roads.
Cobb, Butler e Co. of Rockland h lve
contracted to build a large five maSted
schooner. work on which will be begun
at their yard as speedily as possible.
The same firm will Immediately begin
work on n four-master and the two
vessels will be carried along at the
same time.
Some sample clapboards have been
sawed at the Coombs' mill. West
Franklin. the past week, which will be
sent West and it is possible that a
large contract will be secured. $. S.
Scammon has some excellent pine on
the landing here for clapboards and
headings and the mill will be busy all
summer.
Leonard Bros, wholesale dealers in
salt, fresh and picked fish in PASSPORT,
have recently purchased the schooner
Martha A. Bradley. which will soon be
fitted out for a trip to the Magdalen
Islands for n cargo of big herring.
The above schooner was built ut Glou-
cester. Mass. in 1882. is IS feet long
% feet wide, { feet deep and of - tons.
The brick manufacturers Of Brewer,
are watching their yards emerge from
the snow banks which have covered
them. Just as soon as the frost is
sufficiently out of the ground and the
tops of the yards dried. crews Will be
hired and put at work getting the
ground in shape for the work. 1t is
expected that every yard will be
worked to its fun capacity next sum
mer as there will doubtless be good
demand for brick with other building
material.
The Wassookeag Wooden Company.
Dexter. is doing a remarkably fine
business at present with the best of
Outlooks for the future The produc-
ton of the mill for the past two weeks
has averaged about 1000 yards of cloth
Per day and during the past two weeks
- cases of goods have been shipped
with an average of IA pieces to the
case. The mill operates "a looms and
the pay roll showed SO hands pay day.
The lath mill at Marshfeld. which
has been shut down for the past four
or five years. was started up recently
by crew Of men with VIM. Mealy as
foreman. 1t is estimated that there is
stock enough in the mill yard to make
about 100000 laths. When this mill was
first erected on its present site it did a
large amount of business, but as the
price deprecated it did not prove to be
profitable to saw laths there and haul
them four miles beAAe they could be
shipped.
Bridgton's WOODEN industry is still at