Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-18
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

MAINE INDUSTRIES.
! A company has been organized at
i York for the manufacture of brick.
The corn shop at Gray packed in the
!, vicinity Of one hundred and thirty-five
thousand cans. which is about half of
the usual output.
1 The Van Buren, Single Co. will be-
gin the erection of their large mill at
once so as to have it in running order
! by July LIST next.
Eugene Sellers of Sunshine. caught
over 200 bushels of large herring in his
weir one day recently. They were
sold to the Brooklin factory at good
price.
Skedgel! & Scr have the frame up for
their new lumber mill at Hodgdon, and
it is boarded in and the roof shingled
The engine and machinery are now be-
, ing put in.
There are about 100000 of logs be-
longing to the Berlin Mills company
, which were left unsawed near the site
| of the Holman mill, West Phillips, re-
. Gently burned. to be hauled out to the
, new mill
The Portland Packing Company has
closed operations for this season at it's
FOxcroft factory, after running about
! even days. This was the shortest sea-
son at packing the factory has expert
enced since it was built. About 100000
/ cans have been put up.
Messrs. Bangs & Bell of Phillips,
| who have had portable mill at No. s
, on their timber land for the past year
or two. will move it out soon and
| build small mill in Avon on the VAL
/ lev stream, where the Seward Dill mill
/ was burned a few years ago.
| A large wood contract has been
| awarded to Il. H. Cunningham of
Kingfield place. Me. Cunningham
will cut and haul 1000 cords of white
| birch for the Huse Spool & Bobbin Co.
from lots of land situated in Cara
bassett. Twenty men will be employed
to complete the contract.
The work on the buildings for the ST.
: John Lumber Co.'S large mill at Van
Buren, is going forward at a rapid rate.
A large crew of men are employed un-
der the surerintendancy Of Mr.. Brown.
Work on the Bangor and ArOOstoOk
railway to this mill will be commenced
at once as the engineers have COM
! pleted their survey.
The ArOOstOok Lumber Company,
Pressure Isle, intends to run it's box.
board and shingle machines nearly all
winter. 1t wants to purchase a large
quantity of box board lumber. The
company has shipped 234 cars of long
,, lumber this season and 200 cords of
short lumber. 1t already has two
crews in the woods. 1t is their inten-
ton to cut five million feet of lumber
this season.
The corn factory at Pittsfield has
finished operations. Only about 100,-
600 cans we're Put up which is about
one fourth of the usual amount canned
here in ordinary years. Superintendent
Moses says that owing to the short
crop this year which will make an in
creasing demand for the product, that
the company has decided that they will
increase the price to be paid next year
| to $1.75 per hundred weight.
Read Nichols Co. have sent up $50
l cOruS OIL eACGIcHI WOou ehtS
| last three weeks for fuel in their brick
kilns in Bath and in Woolwich.
The product for the two kilns this
.-mmer will be about 100000 bricks.
OF this amount 100000 will be shipped
| to Diamond Island in Portland Harbor
| for the barracks being built there Tor
| the government. The scOw +. a.
Harnden will carry over the first load
| this week.
| The corn shops at Norway and South
| Paris finished their pack. Saturday.
Oct. nth. Some few pieces remain un-
| picked hut the heavy frost of Friday
| night stopped all further proceedings.
| The pack at Norway is estimated at
about one-half the usual amount.
| They will now commence packing APP
! pies which will continue for several
weeks. The pack at South Paris is
fully up to an average, 100000 cans. AS
| the shop at West Paris wasn't run.
the corn intended for that shop was
| brought to South Paris by rail.
| Marine business is brisk at the port
of Sullivan, and numerous stone car
goes are being shipped at this time.
/ The three masted schooner Willie l..
| Maxwell. Capt. Bowden. arrived mt
sullivan, Saturday. and is loading
stone for Hooper. Havey & CO.. con-
! signed to New York. The George w.
i Collins. Capt. Moon. laden with cargo
! Of stone for Messrs. Crabtree and
Hayev for Boston. and the Lavolta.
Cant. Whitaker, stone for Robertson
| & Havey, consigned to New York.
! sailed Monday. The schooner Wesley
/ Abbot. Capt. Peterson, sailed from
| tho mouth of Union river. Ellsworth.
! Monday. for Jonesboro, to load slaves
for charles J. Treworgy Of Falls vii
| !aee, for New York.