Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-19
KENNEBEc [. D. co.
Annual Meeting at Grand Army
Hall, Yesterday.
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f. The annual pleeting of the Kennebesc
Log Driving Go. was held at Gran
Army hall. yesterday forenoon. M. G.
Shaw of Bath, was elected moderator,
s. w. Philbrick Of Skowhegan, was
chosen clerk and treasurer.
The following directors were elected:
F. T. Bradstreet Gardiner: E. ]. Law
! renee. Fairfield; Frank E. Boston, Gar
diner: A. Ledyard Smith, Jr, Madison:
w. M. Shaw, Greenyille. This is the
old board. with the exception that W.
NJ. Shaw was elected in place Of Charles
Lawrence. deceased E. y. Page Of
SkOwhegan, was elected auditor.
The following votes We're passed:
That the treasurer be authorized to
hire money by giving compa ly notes to
such an amount as may become neces-
sary. for the purpose of living the
logs the ensuing year; paying the uebts
of the company, or any other expenses
that may become necessary
That the treasurer pay all mills of the
company.
That the boOmage at Sands boom
shall be 10 cents per log with additional
expenses added.
That the directors be authorized to
make such improvements on the river
as they may deem necessarily and also
all necessary repairs on the dams, piers
and booms of the company.
That all logs put into Bro WINS Island
boom by the owners and taken out the
same fall by the owners at no expense
to the company shall pay three fourths
of one cent CO0%cD per leg. All logs
put into the boom by the owners and
taken out in the spring by the owners
at no expense to the compa ny shah pay
one and one-half cent C01'kc) per log
All logs put into the boom by the own
ers and taken out by the, company i'm
the spring shall pay two and one-half
cents C02RcD per log. Ill scalawags
taken from Hallowell boom and turned
into the boom by the company or their
agents shall pay seven and one-half
cents tO71ac) per log.
That the directors be instructed to
have the marks Of all logs used for
booms taken and a reasonable sum
paid for the damage to the same.
All parties having logs to be landed
in the East Branch or the main Kenne-
bee river. shall not land said logs on
the ice or in the bed Of the river. but
shall brow said logs on the banks in a
safe manner. and said logs shall not be
put aftoat until after the first high
water in the spring. 80
1t was voted that the prize logs shall
be sold. delivered under rigging at Hal
lowell boom. the company naying boom
age and rafting Of some; terms Of sale,
cash upon delivery of survey bill.
The prize logs were sold to Lawrence
70 oftov. enirifod hi1I;pu
George Gray of Gardiner, and others.
The price was $13.& against s11.30 last
year. '"St
1t was voted to sell at auction at
this meeting all prize junks under eight
feet, and if stopped above Augusta
dam; all expenses to be paid by pur-
the purchaser also to take all
prize junks that go into Fiallowell
boom and pay all expenses orr them.
1t was also voted that the boomage
on all junks less than eight feet in
length, in all the company's booms,
one-half price; and all junks aban-
dOned by the owners to be taken by
the company and sold.
F. S. Lyman of this city, and F. T.
of Gardiner, INDUCED in
some livery DluulnS IoT lHe prize JuHkS.
Finally they were sold to Mr.. Lyman
at 6A cents each. Last year they only
brought cents each.
1t was voted that the damage to logs
in booms be settled at 50 per thousand,
although Ira H. Randall wanted it 81,
and F. E. Boston moved to take in
pulp logs. compromise was affected
at SO.
F. S. Lyman offered the following
which were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved: That the members of the
Kennebec Log Driving Company have