Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-01-16
ON UNION RIVER. Z
THIS YEARS NUMBERING OPER-
ATIONS NEAR ELLSWORTH.
PROSPECTS FAVORABLE FOR GOOD
SEASONS BUSINESS - PROMISING
FUTURE FOR HARDWOOD.

This will be q good winter In the Union
| river woods unless all signs fail. The
winter has opened we'll. Down here
along the coast, to be sure, we have been
| scratching around on bare ground or
jolting along on wheels, but up in the
woods they have had ''gocd doin's' for
| several weeks, and already some good
sized landings have been made.
But weather alone does not make good
winter in the Maine woods. There must
be business. There Is business. You hear
people talk about Ellsworth's lost lumber
industry, as though 1t was something
dead and gone, but nose around among
the lumber operators for awhile and you
will find 1t is pretty lively corpse.
We do not mean to say that numbering
on Union river is what 1t was twenty five,
nifty, seventy five years ago, but there's
a pretty decent reminder Of 1t left. For
the past few years it has been a little more
than holding its own, and with the pres
ent outlook for the development OF the
hardwood industry, 1t is about time the
people OF Ellsworth began to talk about
the future of numbering on Union river,
instead OF the past.
1t is i'm apostolic i'm a brief article to g1ve
a complete account of lum bering opeeH
tions on Union river his year, but work
OF the largest firms may be approximately
stated to give a general idea of the busi-
ness which will be done on Unfon river
waters this winter. In this review, many
individual operators who sell to some OF
the numbering firms will be overlooked,
but OH figuring on the years work they
must be taken into account, as the aggre-
gate cut OF these operators Is considera-
bic.
wHITcoMB, HAYNES Co,
the largest manufacturers and shippers OF
slaves in New England, figure on about
| an average winters cut OF stave wood
and long lumber, mostly the former. Ii
the winter proves exceptionally favorable
for lum bering operations they expect to
receive at their mills about the same as
last year, which was slightly above the
average OF recent years.
The bulk of this firms stock on Union
river waters will come from the East
Branch, where they have a dozen or fif-
teen operations, on townships q and %.
Among men in charge of operations
here are Urban Jordan and William
Ritchie, who are landing on seven mite
| brook, B. f. Jordan and Alden X. Has
| lam, at Rocky pond; Alvah Haslam,
| Henry French, Adelbert Merchant, VIII
| sou A. Googins, stephen NJ Jordan,
| landing on stream between Rocky and
| Spectacle ponds; Nahum Jordan, George
| @. Jordan and Anton K. Jordan.
On Middle Branch waters the largest
| operations for this firm are by Henry l.
| Rowe and John Fox on township 28
| They are landing on Middie Branch pond.
| Principal operations for Whitcomb,
| Haynes q Co. on the main river are at 81
| and 33. On 80 j. G. and Frank Dunham
and George aud Benjamin Jordan have
| camps. Melvin Hasam has charge OF the
operations at 80, landing on Dead stream.
Down at No. IA, George Davis, Willard
Hasiam and Charles Monaghan have
camps. r. /. and w. s. Moore have camps
at Green Lake. and probably Charles Gerry
will go in there later.
Besides these operations OF their own
Whitcomb, Haynes & Co. buy from many
individual operators.
David L. Salisbury is stocking his stave
mill at the foot of Floods pond. Whit
comb, Haynes & Co. handle the slaves from
this mill.
The operations of Whitcomb, Haynes
& Co. are not confined to Union river
waters, but it is their operations here
with W which Ellsworth is most concerned.
At East Machias they are stocking the
Cooper mill, which they bought year or
so ago. They expect to have about 1000
or 5000 cords of stavewood there. They
also buy and ship slaves from Bangor,
Jonesb boro and her ports.
CHARLES J. TREwoRGY,
| OF Ellsworth Falls, is the OF her large man
| ufaciurer of slaves in this section. He
buys the greater part of his stock from
| jobbers up-river, who gather up small
| and large lots. Among these jobbers are
| f. Z. Mace, Great Pond; A. e. Mace and
George r. Crosby, Aurora; w. III. Dun ham