Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-03-16
Daily ksnnebec Journal
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

building To Brown Bros. of Eastnort
VINO VIII take charge this spring.
Edgar McAl!ister and son, of West
H'oheham, have finished cutting pine
II is estimated that they have from
lou to 40 thousand feet landed on the
ice.
- government contract of 1900 nairs
OF black chrome tanned shoes ana q
ooo pairs Of russell shoes has been
placed with Munroe Packard & lin
scott of Auburn.
y two hundred and twenty-five foot
Keel is stretched at G.. G.. Deerinp's
yard Bath. Master Joiner VIM. Nc
Neal has started in on the iolner
work.
The lobster fishermen at Pemaauid
Beach and New Harbor, caught about
1000 OF these famous crustaceanS last
week. netting them eighteen cents
apiece. amounting to $3.50
The three thousand ton barge Ma
tanzas AT Kelley. Spear cos yard.
Bath. will be ready to so overheard
the last Of this month. She is for the
Staples Coal Co. of Taunton.
q -hsNpll vi al. HAS Sldlltu IN
building a new ice house on the New
Meadows with a capacity Of 1900 tlns.
lie will have harvested upwards Of
5000 tons of ice this winter.
Frank W. Hunt & 60. Of Island
Falls. finished hauling bark. last week
making an unusually quick season :
work: they have about 10000 cords in
their yard now.
The Great Northern Paper. Company
has started its seventh machine AT its
Millinocket mill. The average ship
ment Of paper from this mill is now
HOO tons Il week.
NJ. w. Sewall Of Bath is erecting
sixty foot shears at his coal yard for
handling coal barges The barge
Stanford from Philadelphia with ! .20u
tons is on the way to this yard. She
left Philadelp!. in last Wednesday.
1t is now 5, ted that Passport will
have three inc .pendent sardine fac
tories III operation during the coming
season in come, zion With the Two Very
large canning plants Of George q.
Grady & 60, nlso Lewis ID. Clark &,
Sons that are nu; side the trust
The steel ship Acme at SewaWs
yard. Bath. is rc1rly plated up and il
is expected she viii he ready TO launch
the last OF April. The keel is
stretched for the ship VIM. Z. Frye
ana worllmen haze commenced FRAN
ing.
Bryant & Kent of BOSTON. lime ana
cement dealers. have purchased the
Eells quarry and othe~ property in
Knox county. The purchasers arr.
having built at CharlestoWn. Mass.
storehouses with 4 capacity Of io.0G'
barrels.
Few realize the magnitude Of mill
construction operations nov going on
in Rumford Falls. 1t is said about 400
men are working on the oxford Paper
Go. plant alone. They are rushing
things with q view TO operating part
of this plant in May.
Lewis G. Atwood of Passport. mas
completed building a wharf in The
western part of the city at his prop
erty near Broad Cove, where he will
have a smoke and fish house erected
soon. The place is very desirable for
the building of a sardine canning fac
tory.
Knowlton Bros. Of Camden. nave
finished constructing for the Itn'k-
land-Rockport Lime Co. eight plat
form cars to be used for loading lime
on to the barges. When loading these
ears are to be run by an endless chain
through the lime sheds and along to
the barges.
One of Rumford Falls new indus
tries. that of the United States Motor
Carriage Company. which moved there
from Andover last fall. is we'll estab-
lished in an excellent shop. fitted with
suitable machinery. independent poWe:
| and lighting plant. The concern Is
planning to send one of it's carriages
| to the coming exposition at Buffalo.
An PASSPORT correspondent writes;
"A young Canadian resident OF cam
robello island has invented lahor-
| saving arrangement for saving iees
and wood of various sizes and VIII an
DIV for a patent. The new cutter mas
been given q trial in the woods near
WelchpooI and found to work success
full in cutting down the big trees.
Circulars from the Navy Depart
ment have been received at the Eau
Iron Works calling for new proposal Is
for the construction of the projected
cruiser No. 20, which the Bath lroi
Works declined to accept under "
| recent offer from the government
The bids will be open April = Nhf
Path Iron Works will be one OF TT
bidders.
The International Paper Compah'
has purchased large tracts OF tliip5
lands in Aroostook county. forliiei =
owned by r. D. Hill, of Bangor M
company is keeping separate the Piou
net of one acre of land from Whlch .
cords of poplar wood were cut u
| West Rochester. VT. to see now lhu'i
paper can be made from it. Grass ~"
moved on this acre fifty years aSo-
The new canning factory TOT ~
preservation of fruits, berries ana ~
sorts of farm products is likely TO D
built at PASSPORT Junction. on the i'''
of the Washington County Ralifoau' d
this point is more Sultaple 'fi'ii a."