Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-11-17

Dudley Mcleod of Old Town, have
a large crew now in the woods and will
cut in the vicinity of s,O00,000 feet of
logs during the winter. Their orera-
I tions this season are on the North
Branch of the Penobscot and their
logs will all be taken by the Great
Northern Paper Company for use at
Millinocke:. Messrs. Dudley & Nc
Leod have on Traveller mountain 4OO-
900 feet of logs that were left over
from last seasons operations
| Turner & Bard's starch factory, Fort
Fairfield, shut down recently, after
making about e5 tons of starch as
| against .. tons last year. L.. X. Cary
4 60. also closed last week, after maxi
! ing about 200 tons as against 226 last
year. Nearly half this starch was
| made after the cold snap of October
l0-l2. and largely in consequence of it.
farly in October the Aroostook output
of starch this year was estimated at
| little better than half that Of 1899, but
| it has proved far greater than at first
| thought.
! The Rockland-EOckpOrt Lime 60.
have just laid a branch track from the
| main line into their sheds at the At
lantic kilns, which will greatly facili-
tate the shipment of lime i'm bulk,
completely doing away with the for
mer heavy expense of moving it quite
a distance. They now have standing
orders for 1000 casks per week, in
bulk. and in a short time will increase
the weekly shipment to about 5000.
These improved facilities will affect
| the manufacture of casks to a con-
| ;lar III
soon begin the shipment of lime TO
| New York in new barges which have
been especially constructed for that
purpose. This will create quite an
evolution in this vast industry.
| Kingman is at present experiencing
| a revival of business such as II mas
| not known since the failure of l.. y.
Clark and the consequent shutting
down of his tannery about three years
ago. Kingman suffered a hard blow
| from this failure and was slow in re-
covering but the present business out
look is better than for several years.
| The reason for this is the prosperous
condition of the two leading industries
| of the place, the saw mill, kindhng
| wood factory and pulp business con-
Quoted by William Grant and Grant
& Milliken. and the tannery owned anu
| operated by Mr. Poor. formerly OF
Boston. The saw mill now owned BY
| Mr.. Grant was built in 1SS. by Parker
& Richardson. who sold out in 1870 TO
| Mr. Grant who came here from Pros
pcct Mr.. Grant at once set ABOUT
improving and enlarging the plant He
put in q large rotary and power plant
| and now has an establishment
equipped with modern machinery with
a capacity of about 10000 feet of lum-
Der n day. although as the mill has
| been running day and night all sum-
mer the capacity has been douhieo.
| At the mill Mr.. Grant turns out long
lumber and laths. \ few years ago
| Mr.. Grant saw the advantage of
kindling wood factory and at once
added one to his plant He uses the
refuse wood from his mill and now
finds there is almost as much money
to be obtained from the edgings as
from the better wood. This refuse
which was formerly burned is now
great factor in the business. During
the past summer MIR. Grant mas
shipped about 115 cars of kindang
wood bundles. The third branch OF
Mr.. Grants business. and in this he
a
susta. is in pulp. The wood is fitted
ready for grinding. the bark being re-
moved and the gum seams taken from
the wood as only perfect wooo Is ue
sired. About IS cords are prepared
daily and this is shipped chiefly to
peieoscot. Lisbon Falls and to the
winslow mills of the Hollingsworth 4
whitney Co. The power for all
1 ,t,c furnlSnfQ
nv the large steam engine which has q
horsn mower of 800. Mr.. Grant employs
ahont 90 men, of whom Sc are IN the
III, 20 in the pulp preparing mill ana
.. in the kindling wood factory IN
charge of the mill is Hubert rran'.
brother OF the proprietor. Inc sa"
,,, has had a very successful season
"a h,s heen kent running night anc
a., al summer and is still keeping the
o,;n nj the present time. rms Is
r,;o,,ar,y good showing, especially
&c many OF the mills in the Vlcihi'!
Ian shut down. Mr.. Grant.
houever. has been getting out an eA
So quality of hemlock which sells
raaa;,y. The Grant mills are situateu
La,,t a mile from the village of King
wan and as the dimensions OF 'nc
|
,,ament has grown up arouho wv
mills. This settlement now ineiuaes
Il; dwelling houses and noar.hn'
honse. Mir. Grant gets out his own
lumber and will have large ere" ~, -,
mon in the woods this winter. he VIII
oct out about 100000 feet OF hem'och
and c06O. 900 of spruce. the latter l''
the pulp preparing mill. Mr.. Grant re-
cards the lumber prospects as e*cel,
lent and expects a good demand anu
..ood prices another season. Tne othe'
chief industry of the town is the TAN
nary which was purchased about Il
vear ago by Mr.. Poor. The output oi
the tannery is sole leather The pusi-
ness was not particularly brisk dnr.hn !,
, no summer when about half OF a 1ui'
c,ax was employed. There has pee"
cons;derable Improvement in the ous'-
. noes however. and Mr.. Poor is no"
5 omnloying about 50 men and the OUT
,nok is excellent The tannery !" =
we'll equipped one and the produces "'
the hest.