Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-13
MAINE INDUSTRIES.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

+. G.. Burnham of West Franklin,
contemplates saving 10000 feet spool
bars the coming winter
Harrison & Durgin of Island Falls.
have a contract to haul LOCO, 600 feet of
hemlock into Cold brook for c. II.
Flye.
f. II. Hayes of Dexter is building
an extension to his canning factory.
Mr.. Hayes has done a large business
the past season.
Sherman & Co.'S leather board mills.
Belfast. are having a busy year. The
upper mill has run "a hours and the
other two l. hours per day since Jan
uary. They have not been troubled by
lack of water.
Fl. o. Burditt of Andover, has sold
his place to Bethel parties, who are to
put in a birch mill on the land, and
consume loco or 1.500 cords of wood.
This will give Andover quite boom.
O. G. Ward of Cherryfeld, has al
ready commenced his pulp wood opera
tons for the winter. He has con-
tract for 1000 cords and is now in the
market TO buy wood or to negotiate
With parties having wood lots to SELL
The Hastings Lumber co. Of Gilead.
doing business in the Wild River val
ley. are putting in a plant for the
manufacture Of wood alcohol which
when completed. will have cost So
600
The hoop pole trade is beginning -
move ana quite force Of men and
teams are finding employment at the
| business which is carried on by y. NJ.
Matthews Of Cherryfield, who has one
cargo Of 10000 nearly ready for ship
ment.
The Redington Lumber Company
will not cut spruce during the coming
winter. The Redington mill viii finish
| saving logs in a few days and then the
mill will be shut down for the winter.
1t IL probable that the lumber now in
| The yard Will be practically all shipped
)ut by January l.
Fay & Scott of Dexter, have lately
| received rush order for II turret
| athes The size of the order may be
Judged when one considers that it re-
quires to build one nearly three months.
| Employing in its progress Of building
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| stantly They are built i'll lots Of
| four.
! Two and one-half cents per yard is
| what the Wassokeag Wooden co. OF
| Dexter. pays for weaving. The past two
| weeks to stimulate the weavers To
| work over time the company offered
| to pay three cents per yard to each
| weaver who wove 1000 yards between
| pay days which come once in Two
| weeks The mill is run continually
| except from 10 o'clock at night to ,
I o'clock \. NJ.
| The prospects are very good for
| some ship building in Belfast this COM
| ing winter and the prospects look very
| bright. 1t is understood that George
A. Gilchrist will build four masted
| schooner on his marine railway where
The schooner Theoline was put up last
winter and there is a possibility that
Carter & Pendleton may build after
the present vessel is launched from
their yard.
A NIilbridge correspondent writes
| The lobster fishermen along this part
Of the coast report their business this
! season fairly prosperous as prices have
averaged better than last year. In ad-
ltion to supplying the markets it Is
lestimated that there are nearly 100000
Holsters held in pound in these waters
for winter shipment. To keep the
stock alive and prevent their devour-
ing each other. a bushel Of bait to 1000
| Holsters is required three times 4
week. as a food supply"
| rIo1, Of In N
Lumber Company materialize. Mil
ford will have the very latest thing ir
The way Of d steam band saw mill. The
town will soon be asked to discon-
tinue the west end Of Ferry street. and
if this is done the company will have
one Of the prettiest mill locations on
the Penobscot. As they will have to
abandon the water mill, now used for
saving box stuff. the machinery of
that plant will be set up in the steam
mill now in operation on Main street
while all the long lumber business
which by the way is one Of the most
important Of any north Of Bangor
will be turned over to the new struc-
iture.
Work III the various factories i'll
Lubcc has been better for the past two
weeks than at any time previous this
season. The syndicate has been MAX
inc desperate efforts to secure fish and
has had it's steamers out all along the
coast night and day looking for small
herring. Friday the syndicate steam
er r. j. Killick came in With 81 hogs
heads of fish secured at Southwest
Harbor near Mt. Desert Island some
- miles from Lubec. Large fish for
smoking continue to be extremely
scarce along this section Of the coast
and at the island of Grand Manan. At
the latter place Frank ingersoil WHO
is one Of the largest manufacturers of
smoked and picked fish on the island.
and who owns d controlling interest in
II or Il large Weirs, has given his
bOatmen orders not To sell any large
herring under $50 per hogshead. AS a
result the curers of smoked and
picked fish in Lubec are not buying
any large fish and are putting up but
few small ones. Since the price of
herring at the weirs is almost pro-
hibitve, some of the Lubec business
men are turning their attention to
other branches of the fishing business.
w. E. MoWry has started manufacture
ing fine grade of boneess Goldfish.
The fish which are slack sailed are cut
up in thin slips, the bones all removed