Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-08
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

The Radcliffe Shoe Co.. Norway. Is
making about 1000 pairs Of shoes each
day.
| E. X. Wilson is filling an order from
the VIM. Underwood Co.. Jonesport, for
shocks for 5000 packing cases for this
company's winter pack of CLAIMS.
The canning factory at Oceanville is
running over time lately on account of
great amount of clans it is taking in.
The firm has orders now for more
CLAIMS than it can possibly pack.
The Barring Dark Granite Co. con.
template building a granite mill next
spring which will employ seventeen
men the year round. The company is
shipping granite almost every day. The
stone is the best that can be obtained
anywhere and orders are fiocking in
sufficient to ensure the success of the
mill
The prospects of another shoe fac
tory in. Ellsworth grow brighter each
day. The business men interested with
B. E. Thomas have organized a COM
pany known as the Ellsworth Shoe
Company, and the subscribers to the
fund for starting the enterprise are be-
ing requested to pay same, in order
that suitable machinery may be
bought for fitting up the building in the
rear of north side of Main street,
known as the Giles building.
During the coming week a special
order for four million reply postal cards
will be filled at the post card printing
office. Rumford Falls. At present two
fro .1Ak - ,,.Ie
shipped from Rumford Falls to the
Isub-statiOns. A new card cutting ma
chine has been recently installed with
Miss Maud Goshorn as operator. When
the four machines are running at the
average rate, $4,000 cars daily are cut
by each. At present, however. the new
machine cuts but 100000 daily. In the
establishment at present are employed
thirty operators. The new Mckinley
plate is now used altogether on the
ordinary postal cards.
The Eastern Pulp Wood Co, Calais,
is pushing the building of its new plant.
The main mill is all up and is being
boarded in. 1t is to be two stories high.
The lower floor will contain the shaft
ing and gearing and the upper floor the
barker and knotters. The boiler and
engine room is separate from the main
building and work will be commenced
at once on it. Above three million
logs will be hauled this winter, beside
large quantity of eight feet wood.
which will be brought on cars. The
w. c. r. r. has built long side track
into the mill and it is expected that the
output will average about six carloads
per day.
There is again a demand for herring
for the market, and the owners of weirs
in Hancock are repairing and putting
them in condition after the winds and
storms Of the autumn. In some sec
lions the appearance of herring in
small quantities indicate that schools
are about. and the prospects are that
the fish will again be plentiful. Dur
ing the summer there has been great |
herring famine, and enough could not
be obtained to supply the nAmerous
fishing vessels that required them Tor |
bait At the present time a heavy fish
dealer has orders for supplying three |
vessels with bait for the next trip. and
at last accounts had only been able to
get enough for one. The weirs above |
Sorrento, Sullivan, GouldsbOro and La
moline are the most prosperous in that
section and are depended upon for TAX
ing more fish. The largest weirs are at
Sorrento and Sullivan.