Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-14
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

May 81. There have been packed TIL
spring nearly $500 cases, using abou
1900 bushels of clans in the shell.
New Harbor's two fish plants hav
bought $4,000 pounds of hake, 54,0S
pounds of Goldfish, 16,4OO pounds c
pollock and 3UCc pounds of cusk, thi
| season.
The Merrick Thread Co. is rushin
its building operations. 1t has tire
dry sheds nearly completed and tn
frame of the spool mill is now bein
! placed in position.
| H. B. Phillips of Ellsworth, ha
| shipped to Mt. Desert island tn
seventh cargo of brick for the season
Mr.. Phillips is operating both his yard
| this year, and will make about 10000
| bricks.
Cooper Bros. of Newport, have latel!
added machine for the manufacture
of bowels to their veneering plant. Thi
machine will enable them to make ;
profitable use of much lumber which
has formerly gone to waste.
New Harbor's herring fisheries. thu
past month have caught 1886 bushels OF
herring. These have readily sold a
80 cents per bushel, netting $2642. \
large portion of these have been caugh
in the weirs owned by Messrs. Dram
and McLain.
About the same amount of fish has
been taken at Manset this year as al
the corresponding time last year
James Parker has bought about 365,00t
pounds, B. H. Mayor about 10000 and
John S. Hopkins about 5000 pounds
John L. Stanley & Son are doing their
usual amount of business dealing in
fresh fish. Shipments are made nearly
every day.
Roberts & Sons of Brooks, have been
for two or three years doing quite a
business in the manufacture of various
small articles from wood for which
they have a standing contract. They
use quite a quantity of bass and some
times find it difficult to obtain enough
of it properly seasoned for their pur-
pose. The work is done by machinery
except putting the article together.
The Foster Esterbrook Company in
Belfast is advertising for 100 girls to
manufacture shirts at its establish
nient in Front street. This firm is
having about all the work it can
handle, having a contract for furnish
ing the government with shirts for use
in the army, besides large orders placed
with them by other firms. Nearly 2GO
girls are employed in the factory by
this firm and it would handle as many
more if they could be secured.
W. H. Norton of Skowhegan, manu-
features all the equipment necessary
for bee life from the hive down to the
instrument for measuring the tongue of
the insect, (Which operation is more
especially i'll the interest of the breeder
than the bee). Thousands of feet of
boards have been worked into hives
this spring at the plant. A cutting ma
chine for slcing boxes with a capacity
Of one hundred and twenty cuts per
minute is operated there besides many
other inventions which can be credited
to the proprietor's ingenuity. Mr..
Norton is also very much interested in
bee culture. The Italian bee is his ia
vorite, and he wintered ninety-four
hives of the breed the past winter. He
gor district this spring, as we'll as
many other places, including Michigan,
where he shipped forty thousand honey
boxes, and Vermont where he shipped
ten thousand.
Since the canning Of sardines and
blueberries became such important in
dustries in Washington county it has
created such Il demand for box shocks
that the manufacture of this kind of
lumber has been entered into more
or less extensively from one end Of
the county to the other. These manu-
facturers are now endeavOring to ar
rive at an agreement whereby uniform
price for shocks may be maintained
throughout the county. For perfectinS
these arrangements a meeting was held
recently which was attended by +. +.
Grimes. manager and part owner OF
the Lawrence Lumber Co, Jonesboro,
John Il. Higgins of the Dennysville
Lumber Co. Granville Chase of Barring,
E. X Wilston of Cherryfcld, Boynton
and Estey of Whiting and a repre-
sentative of the Blanchard Manufac-
turing Go. of PASSPORT. This included
all the shook manufacturers in the
county with the exception of Lyons
Brothers of Dennysville and f. H.
Sprague & Son of Pembroke. But as
the promoters of the movement desired
to have all the manufacturers repre-
scented before taking definite action the
meeting was adjourned, subject to a
call from the secretary, L. 7. Grimes,
who is authorized to select the time and
mace for the next meeting.