The Republican journal., 1901-10-10
A GREAT HELP TO MAINE.
All Postal Cards to Be Made at Rumford
Falls by Dec. LIST. A Four Year Contract.

! All Postal Cards to Be Made at Rumford
Falls by Dec. LIST. Four Year Contract.
The entire supply of postal cards
| which is to be used by Uncle Sans
postoffice department during the next
| four years will be made in Maine and
on Saturday the Oxford Paper Co. of
| RumfOrd Falls was awarded the con-
tract. The population of that thriving
| little town will be increased by more
than 100 people at once and the whole
| State will receive more or less benefit.
The contract carries with it the man
ufacture of the paper for all the postal
cards used by the government for the
coming four years. For the purpose
ten tons of paper day will be required
The Oxford Paper Co. has all the facili-
ties required for this new contract.
| 1t will of course be necessary for the
mills to have some additional men and
skilled workmen, used to this kind of
paper making. Thus, it will be seen,
Rumford Falls will add materially to
have one more new source of industry,
In addition to the making of the paper
for the postal cards, the town will see
| established near the paper mills a gov
| ernment printing office in which 100
men will be employed in printing, pack
ing and shipping in carload lots the
postal cards used by the postoffice de-
partment.
The contractor who prints the cards
has contracted with the paper company
to erect at once new building for the
printing and shipping of the postal
| cards. Here will come a force of skill
ed printers and sufficient numbef of
men to handle the vast output of the
| office. Thus Maine will for the coming
| four years furnish to the entire country
all the postal cards that it uses When
| it is considered that ten tons of cards
must be made every day, it will be under
stood that this must involve large sum
| of money in the course of II months.
Several government inspectors have
already engaged houses in Rumford
Falls and will move their families there.
They will be on hand at once, as the
contract calls for the completion of the
new printing office will be supplied with
all the necessary printing presses and
other machinery required for an up to
date plant
| The government has had Rumf0rd
| Fall under consideration for some time
and has sent its representatives there to
look over the plant of the Oxford Paper
Co. and investigate it's facilities for per-
forming the proposed contract properly.
The third assistant postmaster general
was there last week and was greatly
taken with the big concerns which he
found in operation there. His report to
the government is the immediate cause
of the contract coming to Maine.
During the past four years the paper
for the postal cards has been made in
Virginia which now losses the industry
on account of the preference of the post
office department for the State OF
Maine.
The awarding of this contract was an
nounced at meeting of the Oxford
Paper Co. September 10th, at it's
offices in Portland. Among those pres
ent at the meeting were Hon. Waldo
Pettengill, Hon. George D. Bisbee and
others. They were all very naturally
jubilant over the prospect and did not
hesitate to express their qualification in
enthusiastic terms.