Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-29
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

during the past StdSOl SN,Vp tOIuS VI
lumber and 1890 cords of birch.
The clam factory at West fremont is
running full blast. The "Creedmore,
CAPT. Al. WEIGH, is engaged in bringing
CLANS tor IT,
Business is rather dull at East Bluehi!l
now as All the quarry men nave Dteh
discharged, and all the granite cutters
except Two crews. About thirty-five men
including Sharpeners and the railroad
men, are employed.
James w. Meservey's mill at East JEFF
ferson is rushed with business and nlSht
and daY shifts are at work getting on,
heavy orders including lumber for Dr.
Jacksons proposed establishment. +: L,
Davis mill is also rushed and night
shift was put on Monday.
Work is livening up at the veneer mill
of me Ranger ~ Aver Mtg. Co. in Fox
croft. Their supply of logs for the com
ing season is now being shipped therI
from different quarters of the State ahc
the prospects of a large business belhs
done are very favorable. At the presemi,t
time eight men are employed at the mil.
The wood and rock work on the rail
road wharf at Brownville, will be nearly
completed this week. Nearly 10000 feet
of hemlock logs have been used in us
construction, also 1900 yards of rock. Inc
wharf IS a great Improvement to the nv
er bank and a decided convenience to the
railroad as the space gives them sum
cient room for two extra tracks.
The business outlook for. Southwest
Harbor is very good the coming season
MANY new cottages are now under way
and several more are to be started soon.
Henry Tracy has many enterprises III
hand besides building the new stone
wharf for Henry Clark. He has con-
tract for two cottages 1or summer PEI PEI
pie. one on Greetings and one on Sutton
island.
Everything is activity at the spool mill
in FoXcroft. Large quantities of spool
bars are being received by rail. while
the sawmill has begun manufacturing
into bars about IT'S cords of logs Whlch
have been hauled there the past winter
The interior of the mill is a very busy
place. At present six machines are run
ming and another is being set up lhese
six machines manufacture on an average
1000 gross of SpoOlS day. 1t is calcula,
ed that each machine will turn out a
spool every second or % spo0ls minute
The number of machines Will be grad
ually increased later on when dozen or
more will be running. The number OF
men employed about the premises at the
present time is about thirty.
Whtcomb. Haynes & Co. of Ellsworth.
have moved the box-makins machinery
from the Trenton Lumber Co. mill, re-
Gently purchased by them, to their long
lumber mill at Ellsworth Falls. where it
is now being set up. A small addition
has been built on the mill. The making
of box shocks will be another new de-
partment in their business. This year
they also put spool bar machines in one
of their mills They have about complet-
ed saving out their stock. But little II
ANYTHING will be done at the Trenton mill
this year, as it was so late when they
took hold of the mill that there was not
time to stock it. The stock at the other
Ellsworth mills also will be short this
year, owing to the poor winter. The cut
will not be two-thirds of what was want
ed.
The Rockland- RockpOrt Lime Co. is
now trying the experiment of shipping
lime in bulk, a quantity equivalent to 201
casks having been loaded into one of the
companys barges the past week. In the
wooden cOasting vessels this would have
been impracticable but the steel bargeS
are air tight and water tight, and the
managers see no reason why the expert
ment should not have successful out
come. This would result in large saw
ing to the company and in several ways
would be much more convenient on the
New York end. Indications point to ex-
tenSive building operations in New York
this season and while the development of
steel structures has diminished the de-
mand for lime this is offset in large
measure by increased construction in 9TH
er lines
A business boom has struck West Paris
that causes the villagers as well as the
surrounding country to rejoice The
large wood rim plant has been sold to
the South Paris Mfg. Company through
the inIlutHtt Oh L.. I. Bates OF tnlS VII
lage and a large stakeholder in the South
Paris Mfg. Company. 1t is conceded
that there will be employed from 100 to
$50 men in the new business. Already
large lots of hardwood lumber from the
Greenwood lumber camps are being land
ed in the yard this new business. In
Greenwood there are two camps, No.
and 2, working some 70 to 100 men for
this company in cutting lumber. and with
portable saw mills in the vicinity the
lumber is cut into the desired dimension
and shipped to West Paris and for fur
ther shipment to South Paris by G.. T.
r., desired.
At this season when lobster dealers in
Hancock county are building traps ard
cars and preparing for the spring catch
attention Is being attracted to a car built
by Arthur Campbell of Deer Isle, with
dimensions of 90x60 feet to accommodate
GbD Holsters. 1t is the largest lobster car
in the State, and in construction is unlike
others of the vicinity, having been built
by Mr.. Campbell according to his own
ideas, of lumber gotten from his wood
built on wharf or pier, while the other
haif projects beyond and over the sea,
supported with poles which can be low
cred with the tide or according to the
with the aid of his small steamer in
which he will send about buying up lob
sters as soon the season opens to get
good supply on hand and hold until
SUCH d Time as tiey DIl1S nlSn prices.
A Westport correspondent writes the
Bath Enterprise: ''Chas. b. Pierce has
returned to Milbridge after spending the
winter in Weatport. He will commence
as soon as possible on another lobster
pound. for the construction of which he
is famous. This makes the seventh
pound Mr.. Pierce has been in charge Of
within the. past three years. The holding
capacity of the seven taken together
would be very near 100000 Holsters.
These pounds are constructed in two
ways. One. and the best way, is of stone,
similar to mill-dam, consisting of two
walls of stone six or eight feet apart,
with a row Of plank driven in the mud
like piling through the center, and filled
in with gravel. a sluice made generally
four feet square to drain the pound. The
Holsters are sejned with common
strong seine. The pound is then drained
by means of the sluice and the remain
irg ones picked up in baskets. Every
third day they are fed with herring scat
tered broadcast. The second way is a
box like construction of plank and pilinS
filled in with stone and gravel. In either
case the top or deck of the dam is two
feet below high water mark to supply
fresh water. The capacity is determined
by finding the number of square feet In
the bottom of the pound and allowing one