Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-11
LUMBER GOSSIP.
4 Busy Season Promised Tor the xe,,.,.o
Mills.

The lumber business We 49,,
better condition on the Ko,,o, -. al
now. II promises, one Of tho ,n,a
ing manufacturers says. TO bc = ,wos.
porous season; mill owners havlpg l,g.
which have not cost them cyorhit,nt
prices should do q lucrative b,,sipa,,.
Reports from the large cities arc ~ ,hn
effect that an unusually large omount
of building Is planned. This i. ,c-
counted for from the fact that ITO
country is remarkably urogncrcr..
people have plenty of money. enabling
them to erect houses for their own oc-
cnpancy or build for Investment
There win be seven mills in opcro-
ton on the kcnncbcc By tho fo,Iow;,-
operators: The Shaws. 8atb Row
doinham Lumber Co, Gardiner Inn
Der Co. Gray of Gardiner. Bsr,in Mills
Co. at Farminsdale, Augusta Lumber
Co. and LAWRENCE. Ncwhan & Go.
w. Il. Reynolds. who has purchased
the Ware mill at Winslow. is doing
some saving there, his logs being
mostly secured from local points All
these mills will operate throughout the
season. The mill OF the Augusta Lum-
Der Co. will start up Wednesday. saw
ing half a million Of pine logs belong
ing to the company. They have lo. geo.
600 feet in the drive. of which 200, 600
are pine. They expect to receive logs
from the drive the latter part of May.
The Five Mile island boom will be
OF cncd somewhere between the 2oth
nf ,,.,,. ~.
VIII commence to run to the mills be-
low.
Augusta lumbcrmcn say that the
conditions for driving were rcver bet
ter than they are the present spring.
The logs are all practically out OF the
streams. This is an exceedingly carly
date for them to be so far advanced.
All the talk about a scarcity Of water
has proved groundless. Abundant
rains las kept the water al a good
pitch ut every point. There are Il few
logs left in Roach river. occasionc,l by
the failure of the ice to leave one of
the ponds.
Work on the main river drive has,
commenced. Last Friday the crew be
gan operations between Bingham and
The Forks. by reason of the high
water Il great many logs were left on
the intervalcS. These the wOrkmcn ara
moving to the water. pulling them to
the banks of the river with horses.
Tho driving will be pushed from now
out by tho Log Driving 90. as several
IF the mills are waiting for logs.
1t il estimated that 50 900 900. 600 feet
,r ~ 4,
the Kenn"bec viii he sawed into lum-
Der. the balance going for pulp. Of
the sawed logs, 10000 600 are pine.
inc lumber is in good demand, 50
that there IS a ready sale for it.
Lumbcrmcn here think that the loss
Of the Ashland mill will br quite a
factor in the regulation of the market.
II is noted that this mill had 3Soc0.-
300 feet OF logs. which would have been
sawed and marketed. This lumber will
not get to market, reducing the supply
just that amount. 1t is reckoncd here
that the mill cannot he rebuilt before
fall. Even, says a kcuneb"c lumber
man. if the owners should place their
orders now for the necessary machin-
cry, they could not get it before Sep
tcmber such is the demand for mill
ron. Mills are rapidly springing Vi in
the South and West, and the ircn
are oVerrun with orders
for mill machinery. The burning Of
the Ashland mill is being felt here.
The Cushnoc Fibre GO. of Augusta de-
rived its supply of wood for pulp ana
paper largely from this mill. purchas-
4, IL,
the saving. There will be none of
these now. Thus the local company
must look elsewhere fer its material.
\ letter has been received here from
D Pcnobscot lumberman. He wrote
that the prices of logs on that river
were very high. There had been one
sale of S.oo0.00O feet at So. The
writer stated that he had a lot of ordi-
nary logs for which he had been Of
fcred S15.1J He did not accept III"
offer. 1t is said here that the Pcnob-
scot scale is such that the manu-
facturcr gets from 200 To go feet more
on a thousand feet purchased than Is
given on the kenncbcc. One kcnncbec
man has 5000. 900 feet of logs for sale.
1t is understood that he asks SIS for
them. They have not been sold yet.
Augusta dealers say that the receipts
IF random spruce in New York deal
IN New York nave been light. the de-
mand good and prices have not
changed much viz. $l5 and $3.50 for
narrow. and $11 and $1S.50 for all ., 10
and Il inch: SIS to $3.50 for all 10
and II inch.