Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-04-07
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

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! There is rumor Of a canning faeto-
ny to be built at North Woodland this
summer.
| The shipment of shoes from the An
burn and Lewiston shoe factories for
| the past week were 1908 cases.
| The Bowdpin Paper Co. has voted to
! enlarge their plant at Lisbon Falls
which viii about double their capac-
| ity.
Already the Calais lumber mills are
| showing signs of activity and This
| summer promises to be a very busy
| one for them.
About the busiest business in BIuebiI,
seems to be that of coopering. Roscoe
Grindle has made this spring 800 barrels
| and has stock on hand for that MANY
more. with orders enough to keep him
going.
Lawry Bros. of Friendship, have with
| in the past six months. put up 1857 cases.
of five dozen cans each, of first class
clans, for which they found a ready sale
in Boston, New York, Chicago and St.
Paul. MIR. Ellison Lawry is foreman of
the factory.
Burnham & Morrill's cannery on
LAWS L olHl, WulCH mas
been closed two months. has resumed
business. Over 20 persons are en-
plOyed. !.
T. II. Phair's rotary mill, Washburn,
has started up again after a suspen-
sion of operation for several months
They are engaged in saving out GUS
tom lumber at present.
At the Pressure Isle grist mill, Alex.
Cox, proprietor, 1913 bushels of grain
have been received during the past
week. An average of about 5000 bush
els per month has been received dur
ing the season.
Inc t1nSmithS are now very busy at
the plant of the Portland Packing Co,
Newport, making the cans which will
be used in putting up the pack Of the
present season. The men are in charge
of Henry Howard and are turning out
40,5OO cans per week. 1t is the inten-
ton of this company to put up a mil
lion cans of corn there this summer.
Roderick Mcdonald brought to ELS
worth recently, some samples of hard
wood timber from No. % plantation for
shipment TO Il New York concern which
uses a large quantity OF hard wood, ana
hid made INQUIRIES concerning the Union
T.
aid brought down were yellow birch
beech ana maplc-siX-inch cross sections
of trees TWO irct ia diameter. There's
lots more just like them and larger where.
the samples came from. Ii the samples
prove satisfactory. il means more bust
ness in the hardwood region of Union riy-
cr. The attention ~ the New York firm
was brought 70 this region BY |. l.. Hal
man uf Lewis Friend a ,u., Ellsworth
Present prospects indicate busy
summers work for Franklin granite.
cutters. Several crews are at work on
Boston stone now and more men will
be- employed in the different branches
of the work as soon as the pending
contracts are closed. g. w Daring
ana f. bradbury arr starting il at
their quarries with number If local
cutters employed ana will put On 4
large force in Il few weeks The first
schooner TO go ont of the bay this year
was the Victory. which loaded from
COombs' mill, last week, with Scam
mons laths for Boston.
Some mill owners On Union river at
Ellsworth are anticipating a busy sea
son. The firm Of Whitcomb, Haynes
* Co, one Of the largest lumber con-
Germs in the State, will begin opera
tons at their two upper mills, soon.
Long and short lumber and slaves will
be manufactured. At the mill of
Charles j. Treworgy the saving sea-
son has begun and a crew has been
saving slaves for a week. At the So
called Grant mill owned by Senator
Hale. Chief Justice WiswelI, 4. c.
Hagerthy, NJ. D.. and j. T. Giles. bust
ness will be brisk, although saving
will not begin until early in May. The
owners expect to have some five mill
lion logs to manufacture this season.
a new venture will be made by Messrs.
Clark & Skillings of Boston, by which
another mill will be run this summer.
The old steam mill operated by them
during the winter as a spool factory,
will be fitted with machinery for the
manufacture of slaves, and saving
will begin early this spring. 1t ap-
pears that there will be more business
in the mills this season than in several
years, and reminds one Of the oden
days when the mills We're the life of
the place.