Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-04-21
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

huf iCu6ii ibio oS. VI L l. II dlIIltIu,
have shipped this season about 200
cars Of hay to other markets.
Business has started up again at the
Foss, Packard 4 Co. shoe factory in
Auburn. At present the cutters are
doing 100 cases or 1,200 pairs per day.
Rufus ]. Virgin has sold the pine
stumpage on his land in Bethel to the
Berlin Mills 90. 1t comprises 1.20o
acres and much of it excellent timber.
At the spool works Of the American
Thread Co. at Willimantic, a new mill
Will be built. this season, for the pur-
pose of saving long lumber for box
boards.
c. II. Young of Naples, put in $4,000
# pine timber. this winter, from his
home place. There is about 200 .O00
more which he will put in next win
ter. p. F. Smith has the timber.
Geo. A. McFadden Of Bath. has two
carloads of locust trcenailS on the way
from Blue Ridge. Md. one with $4,000
for the Bowler and Minott schooner.
ana one with $4,000 for the Welt
schooner at Waldoboro.
The new bobbin mill at Weld. on the
site Of Austin's old spool MILL is rush.
ing business, with plenty IF lumber
for all the work. An addition IS feet
long will be built the coming season.
which will BE- fitted W with The latest
improved machinery for the manufac-
ture Of spOols.
Chas Gardner of Machias, left
Tuesday. with Il small crew for the
cranberry lakes to prepare the stream
ana get things in readiness to drive
the logs. 1.1J0oO0 feet. owned by Clark
K Gardner. into West Branch. He
will also drive their Crooked river
logs. l.250,060 feet, into Main river.
For the week ending Wednesday,
Auburn ana Lewiston shoe factories
shipped 5,i22 cases Of shoes and re
ctived S1.l60 pounds of leather. The
receipts of leather are small III COM
plrisun with other weeks but Of late
the receipts have been very large. ana
there is probably more leather in the
shoe factories than for many months.
With the exception IF Freeman mill,
which will soon be in operation, the
mills of Chcrryfield are running To
their full capacity and their products
are in active demand. This promises
| to be a prosperous year for short lum-
Der manufacturers, especially the
stave men, Who are obliged to keep
their machinery in operation day and
night to fill contracts.
The three-masted schooner Noko-
mis-. built by Sawyer Brothers of Mil
| bridge, in 1897, and now on the pass
age from Pensacola to Bangor.
promises good dividend to her
owners if she reaches port safely. The
Nokomis. which registers 245 tons, will
discharge 261 900 feet Of cypress
| boards, the freight amounting to s.
9S7
The Van Buren, Shingle Company
| has opened for the early run. Ten
machines are employed to cut the
cedar stored on the bank. AS soon as
| the river is free, logs will be taken
| from Grand river, and then the twelve
shinsle machines are to be in activity
| for a long run, which will last till
| November or December.
Joseph Viles and ]. w. Perkins of
Madison, have taken a contract.
| covering a period of five years, to cut
| and deliver to the Great Northern
Paper Co. 1000 cords of pulp wood.
| They cut 900 cords this winter. They
have built a dam on Sandy stream for
| driving purposes and will deliver the
wood at the most convenient time
within each year.
| BuZzell & Woodman of Old Town,
| who operated last winter on land pur-
chased of George Bachelor. cutting
some 100000 feet Of handsome logs.
!
| The same concern has sold its cut of
25O,000 at Eber's Point to Is. Il.
| Thatcher. Mr. Thatcher has also pur-
chased Of Jefferson & BuZzell 200
| feet cut on Olamon, Costigan brook.
| and Passadumkeag waters. l.. A. K
+. Y. BuzZell have sold to Il. Il.
! Thatcher 100000 feet cut at Olamon
and the logs will be sawed at the Mil
| ford mills.
| 1t has been a good many years since
| the saw mills in and about Old Town
have started in on the seasons work
as early as they have this spring
| The two big band saws operated by
! Lowell ana Engel in the Pearson mill
at Great Works have been started up
| Charles +. Sutton has begun work in
| the Hayford water mill at Stillwater
| ana George A. Lewis of that place
| has set the saws in motion in his
steam shingle mill. Conant q Carr
have started their night crew at their
| large shingle mill in Old Town. and
for the remainder Of the season win
employ - or so men. one of the Jor-
dan Lumber Co.'S mills at Milford il
| running full blast on box stock while
| their spruce steam mill has been thor
oughly repaired and will be running
in few days.