Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-15

MAINE INDUSTRIES.

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Gently in the International Paper Co.'S
| crew. Rumford Falls.
1t is rumored on good authority
that a chair factory will be built in
Rumford Falls. in the spring. which
will employ about two thousand
hands.
The Brunswick paper box factory is
a busy place which employs at pres
ent nearly rs hands, many of them
young women. All sorts of paper
boxes are manufactured, which find a
ready sale ali over the United States.
Last year. Haskell & Rolfe, of
Waterford. manufactured 1000 cords
Of dowel bolts. This year they have
engaged still larger amount, and
have already commenced saving.
Every available team is now employed
hauling timber in various directions.
Milo village is busy place now.
Charles Pierce's mill is rushed for or
ders. Logs are piled high on the land
ing. The new mill logs are dumped
on the ice near the mill land it is
about impossible to get man to saw
wood at the door. About fifty new
tenement houses will be built this
spring.
The work is brisk at the Coolidge &
Applebee mill. Canton. One Saturday,
recently, 1O.2S4 feet of lumber were
sawed out in 8h hours. A large
amount of custom saving has also
been engaged. which will be done in
the near future. Mr.. Raymond, the
superintendent, will saw 10000 feet
for his own use. NJ. B. Packard 100,-
900 and Mr.. King 10000. besides large
lots belonging to various other parties.
Two heavy Whitlock presses have
been put in the postal card
factory, at RumfOrd Falls, for
Mr.. Daggett, the government con-
tractor. These presses have a ca
paeity of printing 100000 postal cards
per day, delivering sheets of 12O pos
tai cards at each impression. In few
days these presses will be turning out
postal cards for the government and
Uncle Sans supply for the next four
years will be made from the logs and
printed at the oxford mills in Rum
ford Falls.
The Great Northern Paper company.
Madison, has been singularly favored
this winter in the work on its new
mill. There has been so little snow
that the work has been hardly inter-
rupted and the force of nearly $50 men
have lost but a few days. So well has
the work progressed that as soon as
the frost is out of the ground in the
spring it is expected that the fOunda-
tions will be ready for the wOrkmen to
begin on the walls. Not a minute will
be lost and large crews will rush the
work to completion and almost before
you would believe it possible the new
mill will be making ground wood.
A. J. Bird & Co. Of Rockland, have
started up the kiln owned by Cornelius
Doherty, near the Maine Central upper
yard, Rockland, and are burning lime
for the manufacture of calcium PEN
ellis. This is a specially of this firm,
and a certain quality of limerick is
required. The ROckland-R ockport
company owned the source of supply,
and Bird & Co. were for some time
| unable to obtain rock, but Mr.. Doherty
| has found in one of his quarries some
| rock that is perfectly adapted for the
| work, and the manufacture of calcium
pencils has been resumed. These PEN
ellis are used in producing the calcium
| light used in theatres and elsewhere,
and Bird & Co. produce about all that
are used.
The mill managers are much pleased
over the way the head gates stood the
shock of the December floods. The
water was as high then as it is ever
likely to be but the concrete work
came through without a seam or scar.
The concrete is laid in crib work. the
| wood making a mould that gives the
concrete it's shape. In the freshet the
crib work was all washed away but
the concrete pieces were left as slick
and smooth as glass. The head gates
had test which is doubtless as
tough as anything they will be called
upon to stand in the years to come.
The waters piled ice and logs against
the masonry Of the gates and then
hurled themselves on top of the jam
with all their pent-up energy. But
nothing save the crib-work went by
the board and the mill men watching
on the banks shook hands with each
other and congratulated the men that
did the work.