The Republican journal., 1901-11-28
LET Us GIVE THANKS.

Maine is having her full share of the
prosperity which has come to the whole
country, and Thanksgiving should be
observed today with due recognition of
the bounties vouchsafed us. Not only
are the more important industries
flourishing, but the future is rich with
promise. Our shipyards have turned
out more tonnage than for some years
past, and have contracts which will
keep them busy well into the coming
year. The summer resorts have had
prosperous season, and all along the
coast new buildings are under construc
ton or contracted for to be built in the
spring. There is, in fact, pronounced
building boom. Everything the farmer
produced commands good prices. The
shortage in the apple crop in the coun-
try at large has proved a veritable
bonanza to the Maine orchardist. While
he has had fewer apples, he has realized
more money from them than in an
'apple year." Even the cider apples,
which are often left to rot under the
trees, have found profitable market
this year. Many farmers have realized
from $1,000 to $4,000 from their Or
chards. One buyer paid out in cash at
the two depots in Pennington during
the past two months $1,000 for cider
apples, $1,000 for pairing apples, and
$4,000 for grated fruit. In one Aroos-
took neighborhood there are Is farmers
who each raised 20 acres of potatoes
the past season, the total yield for the
entire 300 acres reaching 10000 barrels,
at cash value of 100000. An Aroos-
took correspondent writes to the Ban
gor Daily News:
its history, and cause for giving thanks
in this the opening year of a new CEN
fury. Ceres has been abundantlv lavish
with the crops melted to the garden
spot of Maine" With cellars and store
houses filled to overlooking, with barns
packed full of hay and bringing a good
round price, with the grain crop fully
up to the average, and good prices and
a ready market for everything, with
comfortable conditions and general
health prevailing on every hand, this
part of the country ought certainly to
remember the Thanksgiving OF 1901
with gratitude and good cheer.
There is great activity in the granite
industry, many large contracts having
come to Maine which ensure good times
for months to come. The Booth Bros.
& Hurricane Isle Granite Co. have start
ed up their works at Waldoboro with
large crew. They have contract to
finish and cut the granite for the front
and one end of the Fidelity Trust Co.'S
fourteen-story building in Buffalo, n.
1.-all nice eight-cut work. This job
is to be cut in Waldoboro of stone from
their quarries there. They also have
the contract to furnish and cut the
granite for the front of the Common
wealth Bank building, Philadelphia.
This job will be cut at Hurricane of the
red granite from the company's quar-
ries at Jonesboro. The Hallowell Gran
lite Works are quarrying and cutting
the stone for the new Hall of Records
in New York, on which they have been
employed for several years, and will
keep large force of men at work this
winter, both in its cutting sheds and
quarry. The walls of this building,
which are already up to a height of
three stories, are wholly of Hallowell
granite. To come nearer home the Mt.
Waldo Granite Co. has plenty of work
with the promise Of more in the future.
Last year no ice was cut in Maine,
and this meant large pecuniary loss
to the State, in money paid for labor
and for freights. The American Ice
Company has practical monopoly of
the ice business on the Kennebec and
Penobscot, and their Maine manager
says that most of the houses will be
filled this winter and that between 400,
900 and 100000 tons will be put up any
way. Should there be shortage of the
crop on the Hudson river the company
will put up every pound of ice they
possibly can. But for the purpose of
filling their contracts nearly half a mil
lion tons will be required.
Thus while our present prosperity
calls for thanksgiving we can rejoice
over the promise of its continuance
At the first annual meeting of the
New England Postmasters Association.
held in Boston Nov. 21st, paper was
read by Postmaster Robinson of Con-