Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-11
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

purchased more timber lands and is
employing men to plant out pine trees
on vacant places.
! Inc corn factory at South Paris. is
putting up about 10000 cans a day
now. getting car load of corn each
aay from the West Paris acreage.
| The Berlin Mills Co., is buildin.
camps in the woods between Weld and
Carthage, where it will put in about
100000 feet of pine the present win
ter. : 80,
Ihe Aroostook Lumber COMPANY
Presque Isle, has fired its third kiln OF
ooV,c0o brick to be used in the new
block. The face brick being used are
from st. John.
Largely on account Of the scarcity of
coal and the high price of wood there
VIII be more than the usual amount of
WOOD cut in Carmel this fall and win
Ter. Perley Bradford is having a large
quantity cut on the lots known as the
Hopkins and Works lots; also on lot
49,
The shoe factory at Belfast is now
turning out 1890 pairs a day, with
plenty of work on hand and in pros
pect. The basement is to be utilized
Tor lasters, and it is predicted that in
the near future the factory will be
turning out $500 pairs of shoes day.
About so men are at work on the
foundations for the pulp mills at Bar
Mills and 100 will be employed in a
few days. 1t is a big contract. a years
work being in sight at least and work
has given the little village big
boom. On the site of the mills a great
transformation is taking place
Judkins 6; Gilman are making fine
progress on their new grist mill at
Newport. and have the frame up and
nearly boarded. 1t is to be a two
story building about sixty feet by
thirty, and furnished with the latest
improved machinery for grinding all
kinds of mill produce.
Barring is to have the first pulp mill
on the st. CrOix. At special town
meeting. it was voted to exempt the
mill and its stock for Eve years from
taxes. Work will commence right
away on the buildings. The pro-
moters ale Fl. f. Dowst and IL 1iig r.
Todd, two well known lumbermen.
The mill VIII be located at the upper
boom. Betwcc: two and three million
of logs will be cut this winter.
There is a good deal of activity just
now in the Portland brick yards. The
Melvin Hamblet Brick Com
pany is now running the third
kiln and it is intended to burn
one more before cold weather
stops work for the season. In each
kiln between seven and eight hundred
thousand bricks are burned and four
hundred and twenty cords of hard and
soft wood are required to furnish the
necessary heat. Companies using the
hand wash process in making bricks
have had a hard season because of so
much wet weather. but companies
making their bricks by steam have not
been thus affected.
The business of manufacturing ham
mocks in Westbrook is now an assured
thing Richard Goodail who for. some
months past has had the project in
view has succeeded in securing capital
sufficient 10 start the business in
small way If it succeeds according to
his expectations more money viii be
Forthcoming. Operations will be car
ried on in the building in the rear of
Morris grain store belonging to the
S. ID. Warren Company Machinery
necessary for the undertaking has al
ready been procured and the wheels
will soon be turning. Four prominent
Westbrook citizens are behind the en-
terprise. although no company has
been incorporated, they are bound to
see it through.
II. b. Sharp has finished this years
operations in his lumber and Shingle
mills at Monticello. and the mills nave
shut down. This is the last operation
of these mills probably, as MIR. Sharp
has sold the machinery in the lumber
mill to Stetson. Cutler & Co., who are
doing a large lumber business at van
Buren,, and the machinery viii be
moved to that place. The lumber and
shingle business of Mr.. Sharp has been
the leading industry of Monticello for
% years giving employment to about
go men during the summer months IN
The mills. and to about the same
number in the woods during the WIN
ter. The reason for Mr.. Sharp closing
IN his lumber business is that the
timber land to the west of the town,
and which fed the mills. has been
bought by the Great Northern Paper